What i\'ve learned so far......???

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14 years 5 months ago - 14 years 5 months ago #28330 by Moonerj

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I have everything crossed also Pat.
You will be in my nightly prayers.
You WILL beat this cancer.
Jack

TA Grade 1
3 Turbts
30 BCG Treatments
Cancer Free since Nov 2007

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Leigh
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14 years 5 months ago #28329 by Leigh

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Hello Pat,

Crossing them here too!!

Leigh

Leigh, 39
Dx July 2007
TURBT July 2007
RC/Neobladder ,Studer Pouch, September 2007
Erasmus Centrum Rotterdam
TNM Classification: pT4 N2 Mo
4 cycles aduvant chemo Gemzar & Cisplatinum

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Mike

14 years 5 months ago #28324 by mmc

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Pat,

My fingers and toes crossed for you!

Mike

Age 54
10/31/06 dx CIS (TisG3) non-invasive (at 47)
9/19/08 TURB/TUIP dx Invasive T2G3
10/8/08 RC neobladder(at 49)
2/15/13 T4G3N3M1 distant metastases(at 53)
9/2013 finished chemo -cancer free again
1/2014 ct scan results....distant mets
2/2014 ct result...spread to liver, kidneys, and lymph...

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Patricia
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14 years 5 months ago #28322 by Patricia

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Kind of an eye opener! Bladder Cancer gets ..what...about 3 cents for research right?....Breast Cancer gets about 3 billion zillion for research.
Well guess what...they're not any further ahead than we are. They're finding breast cancer earlier but deaths are still up there. There is no good second line of treatment once it decides to leave the original site.
A really great surgeon will know how to get margins with bladder cancer. A really great breast cancer surgeon doesn't know if they've got the margins? HUH? Why not? Invent a Hexvix light or something...quit studying the habitats of mice in guatamala.
The gold standard after lumpectomy is 6 weeks of radiation EVERY DAY....yuck. There is a new machine out there for partial radiation intense beam, of course, which is twice a day for 5 days but the caveat is the tumor must be a single tumor and no spread. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that one.
So off to Memorial Sloan next Wednesday for consult and see what they have up their sleeve.
Pat

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