Women with urinary cancers could be missing out on prompt diagnosis

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Around 700 women in England with symptoms of kidney or bladder cancer are missing out on prompt diagnosis and treatment of their condition every year, reveals research involving Durham University. The researchers suggest this may be because family doctors tend to attribute women's - rather than men's - initial symptoms to harmless causes, such as bacterial infections, and some women therefore have to visit their GP several times before they get referred to a specialist. Currently, survival rates for kidney and bladder cancer in England show that fewer women than men live for five years after diagnosis. Women were also around twice as likely as men to have visited their GP on three or more occasions before they were referred to a specialist, the analysis showed.