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Hi, new to forum but reading through posts on here I thought that I would tell our story to date. My Partner aged 54 has been diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer. He is 6 weeks post op where he had bladder out, lymph nodes, prostate and bits in surrounding...
Hi all, my 86 year old father has recently had diagnosis. He has various comorbidities. At his age best chance was scraping op. Unfortunately hE had heart attack after it. He got home around and of March and a week later started to get bleeding. ...
The skin around Basil is sore. It is like gunk surrounding him. It is hard to remove and it is sore The only way I can describe it is that it is like a white sludge immediately surrounding the Stoma. Basil is looking healthy himself but he hates the...
Greetings again from a Sunny but cool Walton Le Dale. I have not been able to post on the site because of technical problems. I have reinvented myself on a different email account. I hope this works. Here goes.... Garviv
I have a question if someone could advise. After a bladder removal, will I have to go into intensive care? I was just reading up on it & trying to get myself a bit of information about it before hand. I'm not too keen on that aspect of it, but maybe I...
Hi, I am about to start immunotherapy and was wondering if anyone here has been on this drug? I had a radical cistectomy 2019. Which went well but cancer metastases in 2021 so I had chemo now the cancer in lungs liver bone and pelvic lymph nodes.
Hi Everyone (new to the forum) I have just had TURBT surgery to remove the tumour which turned out to be Stage Ta Grade G1 My concern is that I was not given the single dose Mitomycin chemotherapy at the end Should I be concerned and is there...
So, I've had my results today, unfortunately I have cancer & the doctors want to remove my bladder. It's been a real shock & frankly I can't stop shaking. If they thought there was no hope they wouldn't be putting me through surgery like this surely...
Had a turbt 3 weeks ago tomorrow. And today got a call from hospital for a meeting with consultant tomorrow. I've been pretty ok these 3 weeks of waiting. Now suddenly, as i'm about to hear results, i'm nervous. My wifes ankle is better now so she...
Hi everyone , I had my TURBT last Thursday and all went well as far as I know , my question is my catheter is so uncomfortable, I’ve had it changed once as it was too big , then it came apart at the valve minutes after the nurse left so I put it together...
