Radiotherapy for bladder cancer

Your radiotherapy team needs to plan your radiotherapy before you start treatment. This means working out the dose of radiotherapy you need and exactly where you need it.

You might have radiotherapy as your main treatment instead of surgery. You have it on its own or combined with chemotherapy.

Radiotherapy side effects include tiredness, sore skin, bladder inflammation and diarrhoea.

There are some possible long term side effects from bladder cancer radiotherapy. Most of these side effects are rare.