{"id":24730,"date":"2025-08-04T08:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24730"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:38:37","slug":"how-surgeons-build-a-new-bladder-for-cancer-patients-like-deion-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24730","title":{"rendered":"How surgeons build a new bladder for cancer patients like Deion Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sarah Boden for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Colorado coach recently underwent reconstructive surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer after doctors discovered a tumor this spring.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/08\/02\/nx-s1-5490475\/neobladder-bladder-reconstruction-deion-sanders-cancer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/08\/02\/nx-s1-5490475\/neobladder-bladder-reconstruction-deion-sanders-cancer\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Boden for NPR) At 57, two-time Super Bowl champion Deion Sanders, has a brand-new bladder. The University of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[402,799,69],"class_list":["post-24730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology","tag-cancer","tag-healthcare","tag-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24731,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24730\/revisions\/24731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}