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13 years 2 months ago #36586 by BillM
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BTW I feel blessed, mine was diagnosed spot on after the second TURBT and treated the way it was.
5.24.10 Final staging T2G3 7.28.10 Started Gemcitabine, Cisplatin neoadjunctive chemotherapy
11.2.10 RC with NEO 11.18.11 First year CT shows possible liver tumor
12.8.11 Confirmation of TCC BC mets to the liver 6.27.12 Final round of Dose Dense MVAC
7.26.12 Final scans showed no tumor or no...

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13 years 2 months ago #36585 by BillM
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Hi Pat,
I finally got to read the article and its sad. seems like our cancer is the "bastard child" in the cancer world. Bad enough it gets understaged so much as in the article, but then there's the doctors that miss it and go off in a different direction and try to treat it as a bladder infection or prostate issue. All that lost valuable time that would have allowed for a sucessful outcome. And then the issues with very little funding for research! It seems like I read somewhere that invasive BC is one of the more expensive cancers to treat.
Bill
5.24.10 Final staging T2G3 7.28.10 Started Gemcitabine, Cisplatin neoadjunctive chemotherapy
11.2.10 RC with NEO 11.18.11 First year CT shows possible liver tumor
12.8.11 Confirmation of TCC BC mets to the liver 6.27.12 Final round of Dose Dense MVAC
7.26.12 Final scans showed no tumor or no...

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13 years 2 months ago #36557 by mmc
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Happy to say that was one thing they got right with me.
When I had my cystectomy, my stage was confirmed T2.

Put's me in the OTHER 50%. Seems I'm always in the bad percentages so I'll take what I can get. :)

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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13 years 2 months ago #36556 by dieseldoc
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That's depressing!!!
T1,NO,MO battling bladder cancer since 2005

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13 years 2 months ago #36552 by pemquid
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Really scary to contemplate. :(
Small TA Grade 1, May-06; recur (2 tiny), same, June-08; TURBTs both times. BCG begun July-08, dosage to 1/3rd May-10, completed treatment December-11. All clear since 2008.

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13 years 2 months ago #36547 by Patricia
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Clinical under staging occurred in 50% of patients
this is an eye opener
www.urotoday.com//manager/index.php?option=com_jentlacontent&view=enhanced&id=42042&Itemid=33
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