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Hello everyone, I haven't been on here for awhile. I had my 9th cystoscopy last Monday (6 monthly schedule) and thankfully it was pretty much clear bar some inflammation that's dogged me for months if not years. In fact a couple of weeks before this procedure...
Hiya everyone. I’m new here. Diagnosed last April
Hi everyone I start chemo on 21st February
I had a TURBT on 15th December, and CT scan a few days before that. How long does one generally have to wait for histology results, staging , CT scan interpretation MDT readout and proposed treatment options? I am in the Welsh region. I am quite an...
Hello everyone, happy Christmas Eve. Yesterday I found that my dad has three tumours on his bladder that have a 96% chance of being cancer. He has only had one symptom which is the haematuria. He had an MRI scan yesterday so we are waiting for the results...
I had routine day surgery for kidney stone removal on 15th Jan - i think they were made of kryptonite as three lots of lithotripsy failed. So I waited about 20 months for day surgery. After the surgery the Urologist explained to me that they had found...
McMillan is great, this forum is great, the people on it are great. But the user interface to the forum is not great and there are several problems that need fixing. Like text over running the user interfaces, and the arrangement of the user interface...
Hi, have been following the group for a while and only now plucked up the courage to join in. I was diagnosed with a 5cm T1 G3 bladder tumour at the beginning of Nov. 2023 I am due to have another Turbt this Thursday as there was no muscle tissue present...
Hi, was diagnosed in April 2021 with none muscle evasive bladder cancer hat turbt then another, told it was aggressive cancer been having bcg and regular checks, I had a cystoscopy beginning December, the consultant didn’t seem very happy with what he...
Hi all, Nearly 4 weeks ago I noticed blood in my urine. Contacted my surgery who asked for a urine sample and gave me antibiotics for a suspected UTI which I must admit I didn’t think it was. Anyway a few days later the culture showed no infection...
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