I had my second checkup which was a year after my last treatment and the bladder cancer is back. I go on the 28th June to have a FLEXIBLE CYSTOSCOPY , BIOPSY, CYSTODIATHERMY (TULA) procedure. It's very early stage this time so outcome is very positive...
Well had the 3rd of my first mainenance treatments yesterday, feeling relieved that I got throught it with only urgency for first 12 hours. Now the wait for my flexi in around 6 weeks. 9 down for now. Hope all you lovely folk are well. Love Lynn.
Hello everyone. My mum (aged 70- otherwise very fit and healthy) had a turbt in early June due to the hospital finding a tumor during cystocopy in May. Pathology results were inconclusive as to whether it's muscle invasive or not and so she's due a second...
Hello everyone, Had BCG #2 this morning… no problems as yet. held my bladder for two hours no problem.. had a pint of water and a pint of lemon barley water so far. First wee just done .. all ok.. Time to flush it out of me… I hope everyone is...
I’m aged 52, went to the GP the day after peeing Rioja in the sports hall on 19th April. The primary tumour was successfully removed mid May; deep into the connective tissue but not into the muscle, but unfortunately the histology results were as disappointing...
Sorry if this is a stupid question, had my BCG #2 today, had a banging headache all day, paracetamol isn’t doing the trick.. can I take nurofen? Cheers Nigel
I was diagnosed with bladder cancer January 2023 the diagnosis was a carcinoma in situ i have since then had 4 operations one recurrence and 3 to take biopsy I have had 12 bcg treatments and quite a few look ins with flexible camera the last biopsy...
I was diagnosed in June with early stage aggressive cis cancer .I informed them i inject fortnightly with Idacio for Chrohns disease .This only became an issue 2 days before my Bcg treatment as they said my reduced immunity would be an issue . I had tol...
Hi I posted on here a few days ago about my dads diagnosis and they suspected spreading to lymph nodes so he had to have a second pet scan .. well he had the scan .. results back - no spreading and they want him to have his bladder removed . He’s agreed...
Hi all, I’m 56, I’ve had 3 TURBTs, the latter at the Marsden showed lots of aggressive G3 with CIS. All removed but clearly a field change and very likely to keep on returning. Luckily so far the worst was T1b - deep in mucosa but not in muscle yet...
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