Chemotherapy

Giving chemotherapy into the bladder does not have as many side effects as having chemotherapy
tablets or injections. The drug tends to stay in your bladder and very little of it gets into
the bloodstream. The main side effect is irritation of the bladder. You may feel as if you
have a bad urine infection (cystitis). If you have this side effect you will feel that you
want to pass urine very often and it may be uncomfortable when you do pass urine.

Radiotherapy

Side effects from radiotherapy depend on which part of the body is treated so it is difficult
to give general information about the side effects. When radiotherapy is being given to treat
symptoms, doctors try to keep the side effects down to a minimum. If you are having just one
treatment, or a short course, you may not have very many side effects at all.

BCG

Side effects from BCG are as follows

     â€¢ Fever and chills
     â€¢ Joint pain
     â€¢ Feeling sick or vomiting
     â€¢ Cough
     â€¢ Skin rash
     â€¢ Feeling extremely tired

                                                                                              To be continued