(Please excuse me if I just posted something......this message board is very new to me.)
My partner has just been given a diagnosis of bladder cancer. He will be having pre-op stuff on May
29th and a cystoscopy on June 4th. We met with the urologist last week and have been told that there
was no tumor or growth seen in the CT scan. He had an IVP done, nothing conclusive there.
Microscopic blood in urine. Frequent urination were his symptoms starting about Nov. 2006.
What will happen now? I have been reading and reading, probably scaring myself to pieces, but I
want to know what is going to happen. Will they do a TUR at that time? Or will they schedule that for
another time? Will they want to do that? (I didn't have all these questions before we saw him...these
have all come up since.) Of course the more I read the more I learn.....I know a lot of
these questions will be answered by his transplant coordinator this coming week. I just want to know
if there is anyone out there going thorough the same or has done the same.
He had a liver transplant in January 2006. He is immunosupressed now and will be to guard against
rejection of the liver. Won't that cause a problem?
I can not find any instances of transplant receipient and bladder cancer treatment.
He gets all of his treatment through the VA Health Care System. He will also get all of his treatment
for the bladder cancer from the VA also. I can not say enough about how wonderful VAHCS is!!!!
He has had the very best treatment. My partner suffered with End Stage Liver Disease caused by
Hepatitis C.....that of course is not for this forum but I just wanted to give the VA a little plug.
Thank you all for reading this. Thanks in advance for any response.
Ali