I had an unpleasant surprise recently. I recently had a kidney stone which passed, and I went for a follow-up urological procedure (IVP and cystoscopy). So, I didn't have any more stones. But the doctor said he found a small polyp near my ureter which he biopsied and sent for pathology, and I have a meeting next week to find out whether, apparently, I am a cancer patient or not.
I'm in my 30s, don't smoke or work in an industrial occupation, and am in general good health except for some weight issues. I should not be in a risk category for bladder cancer. This was asymptomatic and a purely incidental diagnosis.
But I am kind of anxious and have been obsessively googling what this could mean for me. I am hoping that it is just some kind of fibroepithelial false tumour or cystitis due to the irritation of the stone, which sat far down my ureter. I doubt I have anything more than a "benign" polyp, if you can call them that. But am I staring down the barrel of, at minimum, a decades-long life of annual cystoscopies?