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Hi Everyone I was diagnosed with non-invasive high grade 2 bladder cancer last month. I've had a turb and started my BCG treatment last week. I went for a scan this morning and they found another 1cm tumour. I'm a bit shellshocked and really wonder...
Hello, This might seem trivial, but I'm really struggling with finding the right clothes to wear. My surgery was 2 months ago. I've been living in warm climates most of my life, so don't have much to wear for cold weather and what I had I cannot wear...
I’ve not been on here for far too long. I’ve just finished my last cycle of Gem/Cis chemo and although it wasn’t a great ride, it perhaps wasn’t too bad. Anyway, I have my CT scan booked in for Monday to see if it worked. I’d really love to be preparing...
Hi, I'm Matt I am recovering from bladder cancer, I think that's what I'm meant to say. I have created a website, about my cancer, from my point of view, I created this to help other people, for all kinds of reasons. My website is NOT a fundraising...
Hello Everyone Just back from Hospital where I had my latest flexible cystoscopy. I had a different consultant today. He pointed out what looked like small white feathers in my bladder. He suggested I come back in a few weeks for a rigid cystoscopy...
Hi All, I am now 6 months post op after having an illeal conduit stoma n bag, Thought I’d share my experiences, I had blood in my urine one day at work in Sept 2020, went to A n E that same day to investigate as it freaked me out.(so glad I did) ...
Dad Just had diagnosis of inoperable bladder cancer. Reeling a bit . Radiotherapy being recommended as short term . Just trying to process it all
I know this comes up every year. On the advice of the Macmillan telephone nurse advice line last year, I have been working on a 10days/2 week gap between the vaccines and the start or end of BCG. I had my flu jab 21 days and the Covid booster 12 days...
Does anyone have any experiences with the Care Oncology Clinic? They appear to have treatment which could support chemothereapy. https://careoncologyclinic.com/
Hello, I was wondering if anybody on this amazing forum could help me please? My husband has had two TURBT operations- the first showed lots of non-invasive tumours and therefore a second was done to mop up any tumours which might have been missed....
