If you smoke cigarettes, your risk of cancer is not restricted to the lungs. You also have a higher risk of developing bladder cancer. Each year, more than 50,000 new cases of bladder cancer are detected.
Most patients are also smokers.
Letha Merrick developed the disease after she quit smoking. Years ago, bladder cancer killed her brother. I was just terrified. And I was never a heavy smoker, but I did smoke, most of my grownup, adult life. And my brother did, too.