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My mother in law was diagnosed with stage four bladder cancer in January just weeks before turning 50. She’s in PA and received a second opinion at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Unfortuately, we were told that all either doctor couls do was prolong her life for the next 3-5 years. That’s when I found Karen Greene and made an appointment for my mother in law,Vicky, to see her doctor in NYC since since they were such similar cases. That’s making a looong story extremely short. Vicky’s doctor in PA is a hematologist/oncologist, this is who was basically assigned to her when she was in the hospital. This isn’t making sense to me. Shouldn’t she be seeing a urology oncologist??? Her current doctor has made several mistakes already such as failing to inform Vicky that her nicotine patch could affect her chemo by protecting the cancer cells and by not giving her Neupogen to boost her white cells. She allowed Vicky to miss 3 chemo sessions because of her low counts. I had to make an appt for her today to have it checked since she had chemo Thursday, the nurse said”that’s a good idea.” No kidding. Are there any other women on here with stage four? I’m so frustrated that people are so unaware of bladder cancer when it’s so common, even doctors themselves.:unsure:
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