A team
of Medical Surgeons at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, Bauchi
have constructed a new bladder for a 18 year old cancer patient.
Vanguard
reports that the patient, Ibrahim Sai’du Ibrahim who is a student of the
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi was diagnosed of carcinoma, a disease
in which malignant cancer cells form in the tissues of the bladder.
A
surgical procedure was carried out on Ibrahim which include the removal of all
of the bladder to remove the cancerous tumors and construct a new bladder
(neobladder reconstruction). This was the final option Ibrahim had to save his
life from cancer.
Among
the team of doctors were Dr Makama Baje Salihu, the Head of Surgery, ATBUTH
Bauchi, Dr Haruna Usman Liman who was the lead surgeon and two other medical
professionals who assisted during the surgery.
Speaking
with the lead surgeon, Dr Haruna Usman, in an interview, he said Ibrahim had a
five years history of passage of blood in the urine and was diagnosed with
carcinoma, that is cancer of the bladder.
He said:
“When we evaluated Ibrahim, we discovered that he had a mass in the bladder, so
he had to go through various screening such as intravenous pyelogram, (series
of x-rays of the kidney, ureters and bladder), biopsy ( the removal of cell
tissues so that they can be viewed under the microscope by a pathologist via Cystoscopy, a diagnosis procedure where a hollow lighted tube is used to look
inside the bladder.
“All
these procedures were conducted to establish whether there were cancerous cells
or not. In his situation, the aim was to control the tumor from spreading
because there was a spread of the tumor into the pipes that link urine between
the kidney and bladder”
“The aim
of this procedure is to give him the best option because there is no cure for
cancer. What we did for him was to control the tumor from spreading and
increase his chance of survival and that we have achieved so far. The second
part of the procedure was to remove the bladder and refashion a new bladder for
him.”
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