I was diagnosed with Stage 2 Muscle Invasive BC October 2018. I entered a clinical trail, did 8 rounds of treatments and then has a radical cystectomy in March 2019. The procedure itself went well too, pathology was all clear. My new neobladder seems to work fine, although we have a little leakage at night. Aside from a bout with Sepsis, recovery has gone very well. I'll take it.
I recently had my first post-op CT of the abdomen, chest & pelvis. All looks good except they found two lytic lesions on my spine that had changed in size (bigger) since my original diagnosis. I'm having a PET scan tomorrow, and in the meantime - I'm not sleeping a lot, so plenty of time to worry about things and have random questions run through my head.
If the BC metastasized to my spine, I believe that would be secondary bladder cancer, right? Does my original diagnosis of muscle invasive change to metastatic? I thought I understood that Stage 2 meant it had not gone beyond the bladder wall. Does that mean it was mis-staged? Or would it be more like I was still stage 2, but the nasty cells traveled via blood and set up shop on my spine?
I'm really hoping these areas are some old injuries the immunotheraphy tried to fix and there's nothing to worry about, but I think we all know how well THAT goes.
Best wishes to all!!
