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Bladder Cancer
Archives for January 2015
Discussion List
If CT showed nothing shld my 18 yr old son still get cystoscopy?
18 yr old son had peed brownish urine 3x in a week and a half so went to urologist - by the time we got appt his urine color was normal (and still is to date) had abdominal and pelvic CT with and w/o contrst - all negative . Now dr wants a cystoscopy done. Should we still get cysto even tho things hv been fine since dec…
surgery
Mom says she's not done fighting. Wants the surgery to remove her bladder. She would still have a cancerous spot on her left lung. I don't know if the surgery is worth the risks. Has anyone had it? What was recovery like?
I'm going to lose my mom
So my mom is terminal. I can't image my life without her, she has been everything in my life. The doctor told us a few days ago. He said she has weeks left....I thought we had years. In my mind she would go into remission and 10 years from now she would still have clean scans. How is it that one day your making plans and…
Recovery suggestions for Ureteroneocystostomy with possible psoas hitch
This is the first time on this board but not my first rodeo. Colon cancer stage T3N0M0 in 1995 (20 year survivor), Esophageal cancer T3N0M0 in 2011 (3 year survivor) and now Bladder cancer. Staging to be determined after surgery on Monday the 26th. I'll have a catheter and bag for about two weeks along with my third stent.…
So here I am again
So mom did chemo for 2 months and it didn't help the way we needed it too. She started radiation therapy but had to stop because she was admitted to the hospital. Her calcium and blood levels were awful, she was also showing sign of being sceptic. A new doctor called my father at home and basically said she going to die…