{"id":4020,"date":"2025-08-03T07:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/how-surgeons-build-a-new-bladder-for-cancer-patients-like-deion-sanders-shots\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:53:12","slug":"how-surgeons-build-a-new-bladder-for-cancer-patients-like-deion-sanders-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrwofficial.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/how-surgeons-build-a-new-bladder-for-cancer-patients-like-deion-sanders-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"How surgeons build a new bladder for cancer patients like Deion Sanders : Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder.<\/p>\n

The University of Colorado coach recently underwent reconstructive surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer after doctors discovered a tumor this spring.<\/p>\n

The procedure, called neobladder reconstruction, uses tissue from the patient’s own small intestine. <\/p>\n

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Here’s how it’s done:<\/p>\n

First surgeons remove the old bladder. Then they cut out about a foot and a half from the ileum, the end section of the small intestine.<\/p>\n

Then the surgeon cuts down one side of the segment of intestine so that it lays flat like a sheet. Next, they fold it in half, top to bottom, and then connect the back part to the front.<\/p>\n

The end result resembles a volleyball covered in sutures, said Dr. Max Kates, codirector of the Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n