Just what I wanted for Christmas

11 years 4 months ago #43792 by DougG
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Yipeeeeeee! Glad to hear your good news. Merry Christmas.

Anita

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11 years 4 months ago #43782 by CatherineH
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Remember "all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!" :laugh: This is soooo much better than that! Congrats on your good path report!

Best wishes... Catherine

TURBT 1/21/10 at age 55
Dx: T2aN0M0 Primary Bladder Adenocarcinoma
Partial Cystectomy 2/25/10
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Nashville, TN

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11 years 4 months ago #43778 by sara.anne
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The usual recommended BCG regimen is the 6 week induction period and then three once-a-week doses about every three months for what seemed to me to be forever!!
(I think, in my case, it was two years.)

Dr. Lamm, in Phoenix, AZ, is the expert on this and this is his summery of the protocol
www.bcgoncology.com/treatment/bcgInst.html

Research has shown that the maintenance treatments improve the effectiveness of the BCG significantly.

Sara Anne

Diagnosis 2-08 Small papillary TCC; CIS
BCG; BCG maintenance
Vice-President, American Bladder Cancer Society
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11 years 4 months ago #43775 by Flamenco.
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Went to see the hospital urologist yesterday, for the path results from my recent TURB and random biopsies - no malignant cells found, just inflammation, so I am over the moon, the bcg seems to have done the trick. He is not planning to do more bcg, just back to cystos, cytology and ecographs - any thoughts on that¿ I understood that the norm was to now do maintenance bcg¿

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