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Women with kidney or bladder cancer are twice as likely as men to need multiple visits to their doctor before being diagnosed, according to a new study.
Family doctors often mistake he first symptoms of the disease for harmless conditions such as bacterial infections when dealing with female patients.
Some women have to see their GP several times with symptoms such as blood in their urine before being referred to a specialist, experts said.
Later diagnosis and treatment could help explain why fewer women than men live for more than five years after being diagnosed with either condition.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/w...e-diagnoses-of-kidney-and-bladder-cancer.html
Family doctors often mistake he first symptoms of the disease for harmless conditions such as bacterial infections when dealing with female patients.
Some women have to see their GP several times with symptoms such as blood in their urine before being referred to a specialist, experts said.
Later diagnosis and treatment could help explain why fewer women than men live for more than five years after being diagnosed with either condition.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/w...e-diagnoses-of-kidney-and-bladder-cancer.html