Cure Magazine Article

chicago il. Please know that I don't know if anything I'm doing is right or wrong, I just feel really helpless. I've also had flank pain on right side and low back discomfort for a while too, which I read were signs of advanced bladder cancer...so even though my CTs were "normal", I cant help but freak out thinking this is all way worse than my doctor seems to think. I checked out my doctor too and it seems he is just certified in general urology. Does this mean I should seek out someone w/ a lot more certifications? I'm going crazy w/ all of this.

but that was "pre-cancerous" and my doctor called mine a "small bladder cancer" so is that essentially the same thing? I'm just so confused.

Everyone keeps saying that I won't know if this is bad until I have the polyp removed, which is why I am trying to make sense of the facts so I can adjust my anxiety accordingly. I'm just concerned that, regardless of the doctor's expertise, that I should take action somewhere else. I called the Cancer Treatment Centers of America today and am having my records sent there. The lady I talked to is a cancer survivor and said she thought it was a bit selfish of my doctor to make me wait 3 weeks to address this (especially when I expressed how much anxiety it was giving me.) I don't know what is right or wrong at this point, but I do know that I cannot wait 3 weeks. I simply cannot. I have to get this out of me (regardless of whether it turns out to be something or nothing) so I can have some answers and begin to TRY and regain some hope for my future.

Well, I was feeling a bit better until I read the article..it nearly gave me a heart attack. Which part?...where do I begin...the part about people not always getting the correct treatment...testing being out of date...false positives...people having clear scans after three months and then metastatic spreading after the 6 month...you name it.

I hope this helps someone, but it just set me back a mile. I am even more petrified now than I was before.

Hi All,

Excellent article in Cure Magazine on Bladder Cancer.

www.curetoday.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.show/id/2/article_id/ 1861

Check it out.

Ray