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You may have noticed blood in your urine or completed a urine test at a doctor’s office that detected higher than average number of red blood cells in the urine on microscopic analysis of your urine specimen.

In either case, you may be wondering if it could be a serious problem and what happens next.

Herbert Ruckle, MD, FACS, chair of Loma Linda University Health’s Urology Department, answers your top questions about hematuria — blood in the urine — and what to expect after reporting seeing blood in your urine or receiving urinalysis test results.

Hematuria (visible or seen only under the microscope) could be an early sign of bladder cancer, Ruckle says, and Bladder Cancer Awareness Month presents a timely opportunity to brush up on your awareness of the disease’s detection and treatment.

What is hematuria, and how does urinalysis testing work?

There are two types of hematuria:

• gross hematuria: visible blood in the urine
• microscopic hematuria: blood in the urine visible only via microscope

If you have seen blood in your urine, or gross hematuria, Ruckle advises to vis

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