adenocarcinoma 4 cm in bladder

Alan offers some good advice here....a second opinion is always an excellent idea when the type of cancer or other factors make it a bit unusual. A major medical school urology department or a National Cancer Institute cancer center
(a place such as MD Anderson, Memorial Sloan Kettering, USC, Stanford....) would be good choices.

You are not the only patient with adenocarcinoma to appear here. If you use the "Search" function at the top of the page and search for adenocarcinoma you can read about many others' journeys.

Sara Anne

Welcome ckfun,

Sorry for your reason to be here. Yes, the diagnosis is serious but, there are many with worse situations and still standing. Stage T3 is better than T4. Also, I have learned it is always one day at a time. That is all one can control.

Adenocarcinoma is not your usual "garden variety" of bladder cancer. The best advice I can probably give is make sure the surgeon does many of these a year (25-35+) and if you have any doubts sometimes a second opinion is good for confirmation and fresh eyes. However, being stage 3 you do want to act quickly. It sounds like your Doc has a good plan and yes that kind of radical surgery gives the best odds of survival which to me means almost nothing as everyone responds differently and attitude with you as a caregiver are good things. Pat yourself on the back. This is still beatable and treatable!

I am leaving with a good site for the different diversions with pros and cons (just copy and paste):
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/12546-urinary-reconstruction--diversion .

Ask away as you have other questions.