Hello, my father 62 years old was diagnosed with non-invasive bladder tumor in 2019, he had several non-invasive laser surgeries that were not effective and the tumor regrew. The biopsy showed it was non-invasive, low grade tumor. In 2020 he had bladder removal surgery and a neo bladder put in, and he had post-op chemotherapy treatment. He was cancer free for 2 years and then it reappeared in the right kidney ureter. He had kidney removal surgery and one year later it reappeared in the left kidney ureter. It was diagnosed as Urotherial Carcinoma and he was advised to have his other kidney removed for the best success rate. My father is against living with hemodialysis so we decided against surgery. First we tried immunotherapy “pembrolizumab” which was not effective, then he had 4 rounds of chemotherapy (cis-platinum and gemcitabine?!) . He recently had another MRI which showed the chemotherapy is not working so we are now looking into other treatments. I came across ‘ Dendritic cell cancer treatment” and tried to research it but although some websites praise it others say it has only around a 15% rate of success which is not very promising for a treatment that costs thousands of euros.
I am hoping to find someone who has tried this treatment or who knows more about it.
Hi Erza and welcome to the group although sorry to hear what your father has been through. This question comes up now and again across the board and doing a search there does not appear to be any positive posts. It does not appear to be available in this country and as you say, very expensive. Best wishes.
