BCG Maintenance therapy

4 years 3 months ago - 4 years 3 months ago #58802 by Alan
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LR,

Welcome. The effects of BCG do become cumulative over time. At the same time everyone reacts differently in symptoms. Hematuria is very common as cells slough off. Malaise, aches, urgency, pain while urinating all usually increase. Fever often accompanies all of these and is normal if is no more than 100.5/101 (if higher let you Doc know). As always, let your care team know about all of these so they can properly treat things. Just a couple of items to help you along with this. BCG is doable and certainly better than the horrors of systemic chemo. Also, if symptoms become worse lower dosages such as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 even 1/10 have have worked for many plus finishing 9 installations you should have already had a good response as evidenced by your side effects.

DX 5/6/2008 TAG3 papillary tumor .5 CM in size. 2 TURBS followed by 6 instillations of BCG weekly with a second round of 6 after a 6 week wait.
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4 years 3 months ago #58800 by LR
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Hi,
I was diagnosed with Bladder carcinoma in june 2019
TURBT done on 4th july 2019.
Pathology- HG invasive urothelial carcinoma. pT1, pNx,pMx
Repeat TURBT on 13.08.2019
Pathology report- no signs of malignancy.
October 2019- bcg 6 week course.
Nov 2019- repeat cystoscopy- rec tumour not seen.
After urine cytology confirmed negative for carcinoma,
Maintainence bcg for three weeks .
My querry is that till now did not have any significant side effect of bcg instillation, but the last one, that is after the 9th dose on 19.12.2019, i had flue like symptoms and since past three days, ie 22nd dec , i have haematuria. and still pain during passing úriné.
Is it normal in such a situation.,?
Thanx.

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