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I had my TURBT three weeks ago and have a phone consultation with my consultant tomorrow. For those who are passed this stage, can you suggest any questions I may want to ask? Things you wished you’d asked at the beginning that may have helped? Thanks...
Hello all So my Cystectomy was on the 17th of August and I really thought I would never feel good again at times. But here I am 6 weeks post-op and am feeling more human at last. Despite having a couple of setbacks. One is an infected drain site that...
Hi folks, my next set of installations 10 to 12 and some months later 13 to 15 have been postponed indefinitely due to bcg supply shortage, I'm not sure if I should be concerned as I had high grade non-muscle invasive bladder cancer treated through turbc...
Hello. My husband has T3. Bladder cancer, they are going to operate with removal of bladder, prostate, part of bowel & lymph nodes. He has been offered 2ctypes of surgery. The bag outside or to make another bladder inside but at times he will have to...
I have bladder cancer. Have had 3 TURBT operations with the last one being in March 2022 removing 4 tumours plus CIS. They say it was then post-op non-invasive so I guess TaG3. My cancer hospital have offered only one treatment being cystectomy/bladder...
Hi i just wanted to reach out to people as i was diagnosed with bladder cancer and had 3 TURBT also with BCG and finally had a radical Cystectomy. If any one new to this has questions i would like to answer them as when i was diagnosed and treated i did...
Hi everyone I posted before about my father in law who was due to have what he calls a “bladder scrape” and prostate biopsy under general anaesthetic. We have been away on holiday and come back to find that when he went to his pre op last week, they...
Having had my bladder, womb etc removed in March 22 and a clear scan in July decided to have a holiday.Took advice from oncologist and specialist nurse about pain around my groin and genitals, all saying it was nerve pain. Booked what I considered to...
Hello I've been booked in to start my first of six weekly treatments. I believe after the first six treatments are over, there is a break of x number of weeks before another biopsy is done to assess how successful (or otherwise) these initial treatments...
I have been told by my consultant that i have a thickening of the bladder wall and they wanted to check inside my ureter and couldn't get up because of the thickening. So, the consultant said we will do a CT with contrast on the urinary track and if we...
