bad news please advise

16 years 2 months ago #12799 by Patricia
Replied by Patricia on topic bad news please advise
Julieann...so sorry about the spread....at Stage 3 its always advisable to do the chemo whether it be before or after surgery. The PET scan should show if there is any other involvement but i'm sure the recommendation will be to do the chemo now.
Hopefully Wendy will weigh in here with some further information. Pat

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

16 years 2 months ago #12797 by julieann
bad news please advise was created by julieann
Hello, I am in need of information. I am begging you to respond when you read this story. My mother was diagnosed with stage III bladder cancer in July and had a radical cystectomy in August. After the surgery path reports showed cancer in the uterus (it was removed of course). Follow up scans etc showed no more cancer. Preventative chemo was reccomended. Be it right or wrong, she opted not to take the chemo. We requested that she have a scan every 3 months instead of the doctor reccomended 6 months. The first scan was good. This one was not. It showed something in three lymph nodes. Now, they haven't biopsied them yet but ,not to sound pecimistic, it has to be the cancer. What I need to know from you all is what we are looking at now? I know it's bad and I just need someone to tell me truthfully just how bad. She gos for the biopsy and a petscan this week. Please, please respond.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Moderators: Cynthiaeddieksara.anne