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Goodmorning can anyone advise please … my husband finished treatment for bladder cancer early November… he had. Chemo/ radiotherapy… we were told he would be called back for a scan ect to see if the treatments have worked !! I’m sure they said about 6...
Hi all As of yesterday evening I have had noticebly more back ache and a bit of pelvic pain. This is ~2 weeks on from my TURBT. No stinging or blood etc. Can the post op aches get worse for a while ? Thanks Jane
May have to go the RC route. I keep reading about having to catherize yourself at home. This is scary to me as a male. Does it hurt as bad when they do it now ? Is it hard ? Do you have to do it a lor?
I have had two operations now first on the 5th January second on the 19th feb where they found out that the cancer cells had regrown so removed and als I needed to have a stent put in my tube to my kidney which I found very painful it did subside about...
Hello all, first post so my apologies if I’m not doing this correctly. Would love if someone can explain this report to me? I think it’s possibly stage 1 bladder? This is my fathers report and as I understand it, the sample was taken from his prostate...
Hi all Had my follow up meeting with the consultant/surgeon last evening. In summary I think it's about as good as I could expect with a 4cm tumour removal. Classified as Grade 2 - very largely low risk with occasional high risk spots and totally superficial...
Hi all, I’ve just had BCG maintenance installation number 10, so I am about halfway through the 21 installations over three years ‘SWOG protocol’. Unfortunately, the side-effects are now so bad that I may not be able to carry on. I’m worried that...
Possibly one of last things on someone’s mind when going through this but….. I love my job, it mainly consists of brews and banter!! Assuming there are no complications does anyone know recommend rest time before cracking on?
Articke here : https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/feb/26/how-to-get-financial-help-with-the-cost-of-cancer may be useful. Leo
Hi all, new to this so please be gentle! So, Late December had a couple of days where I noticed a tiny drop of blood after finishing a number one, went to docs finally got an ultrasound and ended up getting an urgent (lol that’s another story) referral...
