Growing your own bladder...

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12 years 1 month ago #41505 by mmc

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But they still need to take the one with cancer out before putting in the new one. The really good news about growing a new one is that it will be muscle and not intestine so it works like the original. Still better than today!

It is in the works now.

Mike

Age 54
10/31/06 dx CIS (TisG3) non-invasive (at 47)
9/19/08 TURB/TUIP dx Invasive T2G3
10/8/08 RC neobladder(at 49)
2/15/13 T4G3N3M1 distant metastases(at 53)
9/2013 finished chemo -cancer free again
1/2014 ct scan results....distant mets
2/2014 ct result...spread to liver, kidneys, and lymph...

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12 years 1 month ago #41495 by DougG

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I like this idea.

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12 years 1 month ago #41486 by CatherineH

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Last week on Grey's Anatomy (fictional TV show), the doctors implanted a new bladder grown from a woman's own stem cells.

What a wonderful world that would be if that could become the new "gold standard" of treatment instead of RC! Maybe one day soon????

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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