First time here and appreciating the information, thank you. 70-year old female, TURBT performed 2/21 found stage 1 high grade invasive BC. Cystoscopy after 3 months saw questionable recurrence so 2nd TURBT done with mitomycin treatment which was hard on me because could not urinate for 7 hours after but no cancer found in pathology. On 1st cystoscopy 3 months after, too much inflammation to see anything so assumed just inflammation and urine test came back clean. On 2nd cystoscopy this past week, "inflammation" area had doubled. Urologist says it's cystitis, that some TURBT/Mitomycin patients have inflammation for over a year, but offered a biopsy if I want one. Question: Why would the inflamed area get bigger and not smaller over time? Should I get a second opinion? I have no pain or discomfort whatsoever, btw. Is there something I can do to help reduce the inflammation so that we can see what's going on in there on next cystoscopy? Of course I'm concerned that another tumor is growing under the "fluff" of inflammation. Sorry for writing a book!
