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Time from diagnosis to urinary diversion surgury?
I am real curious about the amount of time between bladder cancer diagnosis and urinary diversion surgury that the members/guests here on the bladder cancer web cafe experienced.
Heh only 20 votes so far? Come on people!
Chris A.
Diagnosed T1G3 – 3/01/06
37 yo, Seattle, WA15 Replies-
Blood clot in May,Cancer found in June,out in July 2007
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Thanks for the heads up! We’re going in (I say “we” advisedly, since it’s my husband actually having the surgery). I’ll be watching like a hawk.
Stephany in Iowa
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I’ll get it right this time!
March diagnosis.
Early April TURB.
April 25 RC.
Might as well add the rest…
@May 10th, staph abcess in bottom 3 vertibrea of spinal column, probably as a result of a dirty epidural done twice, once pre-op and once post op (because the pre-op didn’t work).
@June 15th, bloodstream contamination probably caused by the superpubic catheter removal.
All in all the surgery has been the easy part, the subsequent infections have been a bummer. I’ve been on IV antibiotics for over a month and have 3-4 weeks to go. -
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Early May diagnosis, TURB early April, all gone with ilium neo April 25.
Just a wirlwind memory now….
[/quote]Did you mean diagnosis in March? May diagnosis to April TURB seems awfully long.
“Standing on my Head”––my chemo journal
T3a Grade 4 N+M0
RC at USC/Norris June 23, 2006 by Dr. John Stein
Early May diagnosis, TURB early April, all gone with ilium neo April 25.
Just a wirlwind memory now….
The problem seems to be with the new software running the forum.
The poll was created on the old forum software, and the legacy polls and some other details are not 100% compatible with the new software.
An example is the pictures under names being distorted. The old software allowed vertical photos, while the new software seems to compress every vertical photo into a square. Hence the distortion. And hence my new photo. The solution is to crop your photo into a square.
“Standing on my Head”––my chemo journal
T3a Grade 4 N+M0
RC at USC/Norris June 23, 2006 by Dr. John Stein
Sure glad F&F and Gordon replied before I did…
Same problem, I hit 0-3 Months and was told I hit too many spaces…I too am curious about this time situation as my tumors were found on 9 May, TURB on 23 May, but with complications…so only 80% removed.
I was sent home to gain strength for two weeks and then come back to finnish the original transurethral.
Now, with the biopsy report showing T2, we are told to forget going back to remove the remaining 20% as first suggested. Entire bladder has to go.
Doc says whenever I’m ready…I do need to take care of a few business items so plan on letting them have their way with me…sometime in mid-July.
IF, the doc concurs, and you guys here don’t convince me to do something different.
Same problem as fearandfight. – Gordon
age 70
Dx 10/03
neobladder 9/4/04
Lol I am checking one box and it tells me I have selected too many options, Chris is this a bug you planted for me lol. Well ne ways it has been 5 months of living hell. Joe
Diagnosed May, 2006
Surgery June, 2006I was pretty lucky. As soon as the pathology results came back from my turbt, my urologist wrote Dr. Stein about my situation. After rearranging his surgical schedule (there were some prostate cases that weren’t quite so time-critical), Dr. Stein booked me into Norris three weeks later.
“Standing on my Head”––my chemo journal
T3a Grade 4 N+M0
RC at USC/Norris June 23, 2006 by Dr. John Stein
late Aug. 2005 diagnosed
Oct. 5 2005 surgery
Feb. 2006 – found tumors with CT scan
April 2006 – TUR
May 2006 – TUR
June- Start 12 weeks chemo
Oct. 2006 surgeryFeb. 2007 4 months after surgery, all seems o.k.
March 2007 – another CT due.
My husband was diagnosed in June and had surgery in July.
OK, only 20 votes so far, I’m going to respond to bump the poll back to the top of the list. I want more data!
Chris A.
Diagnosed T1G3 – 3/01/06
37 yo, Seattle, WA
Hi Chris,
Not a bad idea, but you haven’t left a box for “Still clean”, or ‘never had invasion’ or ‘No recurs’, something like that.
Wendy
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