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Post TURBT Appointment with Urologist

Kenzie
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I have been advised by a fellow bladder cancer patient that this meeting with the Urologist on Tuesday 23rd June is not really going to inform me of any more than I already know now. That being that my tumour is grade 1 and was successfully removed. There was an earlier abandoned TURBT where a slither of that same tumour was sent for biopsy so I am assuming the grade was known at the time of TURBT number 2 from that biopsy. After TURBT 2 the Urologist said I would be getting a second CT Scan, which I am, on Monday 29th June, and that he expected there to be no change in the bladder from the time he removed the tumour. As this Scan is 6 days after the meeting with the Urologist on the 23rd June I am wondering what additional, if any, information I will be given. I see no advantage in it. 

  • Hi Kenzie, 

    I think this can be usual to have additional scans.  I was told bu the urologist that imaging is more frequent know to see the lay of the land. I had several before and after the biopsy results cane back, which then prompted some more. Overall, I think it builds a picture for the most suitable treatment options for you. 

  • Good to know. Thanks. 

    Kenzie

  • The upcoming appointment will probably to tell what treatment (if any needed) that they recommend. If there are choices, you will probably be given time to think about them. Even though the scan won't have been done, they can have a provisional plan in place.

  • in reply to Teasswill

    Thanks for that update. I was a bit disappointed by the thought that this appointment was just a checkup on how I was doing since the TURBT 1 and 2. TURBT 1 being the bladder perforation/halted procedure. TURBT 2 now 3 weeks passed and I am fine. I am a bit tired but that’s nothing (which one of us even without a cancer is not a bit tired) and not something I’m going to mention. It will be good to get some unformation regarding my future,

    Kenzie

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