Hello all,
Some back story - my father was diagnosed with high grade muscle invasive bladder cancer, and immediately started aggressive chemotherapy. After half a dozen trips to chemo every 2 weeks, they decided to try and remove bladder via robotic surgery, and either replace or divert. However, the bladder had a lot of scar tissue and was basically pasted to the pelvic wall and not able to be removed, and also was not able to be diverted. Biopsies were taken of the matter that appeared to be scar tissue inside and out...and it was not cancerous. So it seems like the cancer isn't present? PET scan shows no signs of it having jumped to other sites in the body.
My question is, where to go from here? Second opinion? Any other options? Pretty frustrating.
The bladder doctor has basically said thees no chance at removing bladder in future either, and it's kind of like he told us to go on our merry way. No real checkups or anything scheduled, how are we going to know the status of the cancer?
Thanks for reading!
