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Positive on Bladder Epicheck
Hello to all,
3 years after diagnosed with non-invasive high grade, 1.5 years after a severe reactive arthritis erupted in both ankles, seemingly as reaction to BCG (was stopped after 15 treatments), and after 10 Cystoscopies, I performed a bladder epicheck test, and the result is 76 when 60 is the upper limit for negative.
My urologist plan is to perform a cystoscopy in the coming days, and if it will be good (no seen tumor) to perform a CTU too.
If it will be positive I guess a TURBT will be scheduled asap, and after that, I am not fit for BCG.
I wonder if there are any new developments since the last time I visited here.
Mil. Thanks.
J
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The above ended up as a false positive of bladder-epicheck.
In cystoscopy, MRU and samples taken in n operation, (almost) all was negative.
Right kidney was atipic, and considering all, my prof. decided to wait to the next cystoscopy/cytology.
Cytology came out negative for high grade and cystoscopy is in 2 weeks.
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Thank you Alan,
Did you mean this ? t.ly/LIum1
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Check some of Joea’s posts. There are some new agents to augment or use in place of BCG.
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.
Performed cystoscopy early this week which was alright.
I will soon go through MRU (Prof. wants to look at the kidneys too) and if no tumor will be seen, then he will take random biopsies from the bladder.
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