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Bladder Cancer

Archives for June 2011

After effects radiation of bladder - frequent and painful urination - constant discomfort
Hi, my mother completed radiation treatment Dec/10, but is still having to get up every hour in the night to urinate - and is constantly exhausted from lack of sleep. She also has discomfort/pain when urinating, and all the time has some degree of discomfort. Does anyone have any suggestions/remedies that she could try?…
Artificial sphincter
15 months post op with artificial bladder and constantly reoccurring bladder infections which cause me to lose the ability to void naturally. Wanting to know about sphincter cost of operation. Thanks, Rick
Not sure I should even think this way...but it's in the back of my mind
I've had on and off issues with UTI's, infections over the past several years...I just put up with it and ignored it pretty much. Now I'm experiencing constant voiding, blood in my urine, pressure (especially when I lay down at night) to urinate. I'm very bloated, not sure that's why. He's diagnosing me with PBS or…
Side effects from radiation in 2004 - bladder - kidney
I would like to talk to someone who has side effects from radiation. I don't know which choices to make regarding stents or bag.
Too young and pregnant
I am 30 and just got diagnosed with bladder cancer. The dr beleive it will be a low grade TCC. I have a TURBT scheduled for next week. A few days after I found out I had this and had a CT done, I found out I was pregnant. I am bout 6 weeks. After a lot of thought we have decided to terminate the pregnancy. I cannot find…
How to find an experienced surgeon?
I live in a small town 5 hours from a metropolitan area. My local urologist says he can do a cystectomy with urostomy and isn't eager to refer me to a larger center. How do I find a surgeon with experience doing female cystectomies? Hospital websites usually focus on male surgeries.
Bladder/melanoma combo platter
Hi Y'all, I was dx with a TCC grade 1 back in 2002 and with miserably botched outpatient surgery, that left me in ICU for a week and in the hospital for a month I was released. I followed up with bcg. In 2004 I had a minor blip on the radar, rather the cysto, that showed a suspicious lesion in 2004. It was surgically…
any gallbladder cancer survivors PLEASE respond
my aunt was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer last year and when she found out she immediately went in to treatment she started off at Karmanos Cancer Center, the doctors advised her that there is nothing they can do because her platelets kept going down so she went to the Cancer Center of America and now they're sayng the…

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