WOW! You are learning a lot, fast!! And that is good, since the better informed you are, the better patient you will be.
It sounds as if you are getting good advice so far. Where are you located, geographically? Where are you being treated? All your "new friends" here will want to chime in with advice also!
Mitomycin after a TURB is good medicine...it doesn't act like a chemo agent, since it is applied locally to the bladder and doesn't get into your system.
The best part of the procedure will be the TURB itself, since you will sleep through it!!
Afterward can be variable; you may or may not need a catheter for a couple of days, may or may not feel completely normal the next day. It is important that the uro gets really good samples, with enough of the underlying muscle to ascertain whether or not the tumor has invaded this layer. Very often a good uro will schedule a second TURB several weeks later; studies have shown that in a large percentage of cases, even in very competent hands, bladder cancer is understaged on the first TURB. It may be several days before the results are back from pathology.
There are a number of good sites (including ours!!!) with lots of information. A clue: if it is
www.xxx.gov or
www.xxx.edu they are probably reputable sites (either the National Institutes of Health or a university site). Anything with
www.xxx.com is a commercial, money making site. Can provide excellent information (it appears that this one does) but they can also be "shill sites" for selling a bunch of stuff.
You will find a lot of people who have been there, done that here who will be more than happy to answer questions. We have all been where you are now. I know I was TERRIFIED and this site helped me put things into perspective.
Best of luck to you, and welcome to the club you didn't want to join!
Sara Anne