Recurrences Every Three Months

Thank you for the advice. I haven't been happy about the slice and dice solution, especially with the constant nature of it. I have found another hospital and team of fellowship-trained bladder cancer specialists and I'm trying to convince her to get a second opinion.

All the recurrences (3x since initial surgery in Dec of 2015) have been low-grade. We had asked about BCG treatments after the first operation but her urologist said that unless the grade changes he will just keep doing surgery every time it comes back. The trouble is that it's come back every visit since last October.

I have suggested going to another hospital and a urologist with a specialty in bladder cancer to see if they have other ideas.

Will this be the norm from here on out? New tumors every three months indefinitely?

My mother was diagnosed with low-grade non-invasive papillary bladder cancer in the fall of 2015. She had a TURBT to remove a large 2" tumor and had numerous satellite tumors cauterized during the procedure. She was clear for her next two scopes. Since then she's had a recurrence of a completely new tumor in a completely new location every three months since October of 2016.

What I guess I'm wondering is how these are growing so fast and so often when this is supposedly a slow-growing cancer? How does she go from no tumors and three months later has a new tumor (like clockwork) every three months - all growing from microscopic and undetectable to the size of a fingernail or larger in the span of just three months.

Are there other treatment options other than being sliced up every three months? Has anyone had this type of cancer knocked back by using some other method? Is she a candidate for the intravesical chemo? There has to something out there that will keep her from surgery every three months. Any ideas or suggestions?