Prostate cancer is probably the most common form of cancer causing incontinence. However, there are many forms of tumor causing cancer that can be treated IF caught early enough that also cause incontinence. Testing is VERY simple, but some symptoms to include incontinence require more testing usually preformed by a urologist. Ignoring incontinence without some idea of the cause and ruling out such things as a tumor, and/or cancer is just plain stupid.
Granted, sometimes finding the cause of incontinence is not always easy, but a panel of tests can rule out certain causes and help isolate the most likely cause. If you have spent anytime researching your own cause and possible treatments, then you probably read how the brain, nerves, and bladder work together. Just understanding the basics of how the bladder is suppose to work lays the foundation for understanding some of the things that can disrupt what was use to be a "normal" working bladder. Based on my reading, past, and/or present psychological issues is also the cause of incontinence in a large number of people so this too has to be considered as a possibility of cause when the results of urology testing show up as "normal". Many people within this forum have described their cause of their incontinence being related to full, or in part the use of certain meds. Based upon my research there are many, many different possible combinations cause the end result of incontinence it must be like putting a puzzle together to a trained medical professional. I stand by what I said doing nothing to check for the most dangerous causes of incontinence is pretty stupid to me and a risk I would never take. Just my thoughts. The cause of my incontinence has always been very easy to determine. I have nerve damage so when the doc's test my bladder, and bowel nerves they find a disconnect, but they also find other related nerve damage effecting other areas of my body so being incontinent is only one of the many nerves effected. Nerve damage is pretty easy to determine,....either things work they way they should, or they don't.
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johnstone on Fri Sep 18, 2015 10:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.