Okay, I see where you are going with this. You are talking about a trend of outcomes. Well, all I know is that after I hit my 2 year mark this January, if all goes well, then my appointments are set back to every 6 months instead of every 3 months. I don't think that I would say that a clean cysto trend would be considered "predictive" but with each successively clear cysto the bladder cancer outcome becomes more hopeful.
I know there are scientific tables for risks of progression, etc. Here is one that was posted by a Forum Member (Christopher). I could not get this calculator to download, so good luck with it....
Re: Up Grading
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2007, 03:04:38 am »
"Its really a crapshoot.. I was diagnosed T1G3 almost 2 years ago and have been clean since.. after a couple years the chance of progression and recurrence go way down (if you haven't had a recurrence by then). The best statistics I have found are from the EORTC, a calculator can be found here:"
[ftp=ftp://http://www.eortc.be/tools/bladdercalculator/default.htm]
www.eortc.be/tools/bladdercalculator/default.htm[/ftp]
and the original post can be found here...
[ftp=ftp://http://blcforum.com/smf/index.php/topic,1454.0.html]
blcforum.com/smf/index.php/topic,1454.0.html[/ftp]
Good luck, Buddy,
Rosemary