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Bladder Cancer

Potential for Bladder Cancer
As a new member I wanted to understand my potential for bladder cancer. I have had both esophageal and prostate cancers within the last 6 years. I was fortunate to have a stage one esophageal cancer and treatment went well, the prostate cancer was stage three and required removal as well as radiaton and hormonal therapy.…
Kidney Stent - How does Chemo affect it
I have a kidney stent and am now getting regular chemo. Have experienced a lot of discomfort with the kidney stent, which is replaced every 3 months, but now with chemo, find more irritation. Has anyone else experienced this? They tell me that the chemo leaving my body would NOT irritate the ureter but I question this.…
Private message Spam
Hello everyone, Thank you to all of you who have alerted us to the PM spamming from earlier today. I apologize for the inconvenience. While we do have securities in place, we are not always able to catch all spam, and we are trying to figure out how this one got around our system. If you received a message from jegac1…
Finding Doctor
We live in Central Florida and need some help finding a good Bladder Cancer Dr. BF has just been diagnosed his Urologist isn't being very helpful and has yet to tell him the type or stage. He has had 2 different surgeries so far and now his Dr is saying he needs another one. Please any help wi be appreciate.
Has anyone heard of chemo causing joint pain
I completed my chemo 5 months ago for bladder cancer and have had to go to my orthopedic surgeon twice already for shoulder and hip problems. He has given me steroid shots in one shoulder and one side of my hip. I'm wondering if chemo weakens the joints. Has anyone else had this problem with joints? I go to my oncologist…
Nutriti
I was just diagnosed with a low grade Bladder Cancer two days ago. Any advice on any special foods I should be eating? Is exercise important? (like walking) Thank You! (I wasn't told anything except 'stop smoking', but I never smoked in my life!?)
New with question
Hi, I will try to make this as short as possible..routine colonoscopy (my first one) took out a polyp. I was having some back pain afterwards and went to follow up on an ovarian cyst...that was gone but they thought they saw something suspicious on my cervix...then went to oncology obgyn...ordered first abdominal cat…
BCG Pain or Damage from Biopsy?
Hi, My Partner was diagnosed with Bladder cancer 2 years ago. He is 32 and has been having treatments on and off. normally every six months he will have a series of treatments. The last few times he has seen his specialist he has been cleared of the CIS tumours and the treatments are purely maintenance treatment. However…
My Dad is suffering from Bladder Cancer
Last september my father complained of blood in urine , & he said he didn't have any pain discharging urine. The local physician asked us to consult a Urologist after finding out a tumour of size 9*7*4 centimeters in his blader after an ultrasound scan was done. The urologist did a cystoscopy operation , took a samll part…
Urologist familiar with meningioma of urinary bladder?
Hi - I feel I may not have been properly diagnosed and am looking for a urologist who is familiar with meningioma of the urinary bladder. Does anyone have any recommendations? I live in New York. Thanks for any info.
35 with Questions
I'm a 35 year old male and found out yesterday. I was urinating drops of blood after emptying my baldder, so my family doctor sent my to a urologist after ruling out infection. The urologist ordered an ultrasound that was unremakable (except for "thickening of the bladder walls") and said I probably had "inflamation."…
nutrition/diet
I am havng surgery 11/2/10 and will be in hospital 7=10 days. Cancer is surrounding bladder and blocking kidney and of a "rare" type they say -- only a handful since 1991, no protocol. They are removing bladder, urinary diversion, and all female organs and whatever else...... I am 70 years old. female. Am trying to build…
Dendritic Cell Therapy
Hi. My father has stage 4 high grade urothelial carcinoma with lung metastasis. He had a radical cystectomy in 2013. He also has only 1 functioning kidney. In 2016 we detected a tumor in his lung along with a few small nodes with SUV uptake. He underwent 6 cycles of chemotherapy, which he completed in end of August. The…
too young for bladder cancer
I was first diagnosed when I was 31 and pregnant with my first child. I was never a smoker and am not in any other risk group. There is no bladder cancer in my family. The hardest thing for me to accept is WHY? I had a tumor removed while I was 20 weeks pregnant and recently had 2 more growths removed after they were found…
Newly Diagnosed, Have Some ?'s
Hi there, I was just diagnosed with Bladder Cancer on Wed (2 days ago). I have a low grade, non-invasive Stage 1, I believe. I have to get checked every 3 months. What can I do and what should I not be doing? For ex., can I clean my cat litter boxes, feed the backyard birds, collect leaves to compost & clean up back yard?…
Bladder Cancer and Smoking
My Doctor told me that my bladder cancer was caused because I was a smoker. I under went BCG, quit smoking and my cancer has not returned. If any of you smoke my advise to you is to quit. Its a pay me know or pay me later situation. Thanks, holdorfs
Some Good News
Some of you may know that I am 55 years old, a male in generally good physical condition. Late last fall I started noticing blood in my urine after a hard workout at my gym, it alarmed me as this never happened before. Over a couple of months it happened several more times but only after a strenuous workout. Never the less…
Whole body pet scan reports of my mom
pateint a known treated case of carcinoma left ureter status post left radical nephrouretecerectomy followed by bladder wall recurrence and subsequent partial resection of urinary bladder and post chemotherapy .present per/ct scan being done for evaluation of response to therapy following or opinion of pet/ct scan in this…
Swelling in feet and leg
My brother is in the hospital right now. He went to the hospital because is foot and leg swell to double the size. He has blood in his urine, and doctors feel it is bladder cancer. Said there is a mass on bladder wall. He just had a biopsy yesterday and has not got results back yet. I am just wondering if anyone else has…
Bag or no bag??
My wife just had a transurethal resection and the pathology came back that she has a high grade invasive cancer that will require the bladder to be removed. She is 59 and in excellent shape. Her surgery will be in a week and a half. I have a couple of questions: 1) She is leaning and I support the ostomy with the bag. She…
Gall Bladder Cancer Help required
On 25 may 2014 my mother had symptoms of jaundice after ultrasound the doctor suggested ERCP in which a stent was placed in CBD, because there was blockage or you can say contraction of CBD. After ERCP doctor show his opinion that she had a cancer and he suggested CT scan. In CT scan every thing was clear. then open…
Need Help
Hi. After 6 courses of BCG and another biops, we just received pathology indicating my husband has TCC at least into the muscle layer of his bladder. The doctor is recommending removal of the bladder. Anyone else out there have any other options? I've heard so many rough stories of bags and neo bladders not working so…
Questions, questions, questions
New to all this and have lots of questions. My mom is 69 and has been hospitalized for the past 2 weeks with severe bladder infection. Biopsy shows low grade papillary urothelial carcinoma (which she doesn't know about yet - Urology appointment tomorrow morning). From what I'm reading it sounds like this is a very…
Father's diagnosis
Hey guys Really great to have somewhere to talk and I hope I can really get something from this. My father Is 60 years old. In great shape and always well . One month ago he started to pass clots in his urine and was reffered to a urologist. He was admitted and had a ct scan and a scope done. They found a polyp on his…
My mom recently diagnoses with stage 4 bladder cancer that mestasized to her bone
My mom is a 52 year old who was always on the go. A little over a week ago she got diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer that has now spread to her bone. She is pain from her bone and can not ve as active as she always has and she is suffering from that. She starts chemo on Tuesday but it will be a low dose and monitored…
Cutaneous Urinary Diversion leaks
I had a rare form of cancer diagnosed December 2014. As it was aggressive it was imperative that the bladder be removed immediately. I am still mid-40s and professional career woman. I opted for the internal new bladder (cutaneous urinary diversion similar to Florida pouch) to help with my self image. I am apparently a…
Proton Therapy For Bladder Cancer
It has been awhile since I have been on this board so I will give a summary of my bladder cancer and type. Was diagnosed with agressive T2 high grade bladder cancer in November of 2014. The size of the tumor was very large and underwent three months of chemotherapy that ended in March of 2015. The chemotherapy alone…
Disability
I had my bladder removed this year and having to wear a urosomy bag. My question is does anyone know if I would be able to get disability for this?
Planned Outage on 10/9
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ciplatin with gemcitabin treatments
My mom was diagnosed with TCC (bladder cancer) in her renal pelvis & ureter in late Jan 2010. The cancer was also found in her lungs (4 small nodules 1-2cm)during routine Xray in prep for her surgery nephroureterectomy. We started chemo today with cisplatin & gemcitabine. Any one have experience with these drugs? She is 65…

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