To be honest, I never even knew until today that chemotherapy and radiation were part of the treatment for bladder cancer. All I know is that I was hitchhiking across the country, climbing mountains and hiking the trails in all the national parks, with a back pack, sleeping bag, tent, fishing rod. The blood in my urine came out at Roaring Springs Campground, about 4 miles from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The head of the Urology Department and all the other Urologists couldn't find anything; it was Dr. Desposito, who was a young intern who spotted the microscopic cyst in my bladder. This all took place at Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, NY. All I knew is what they told me, that they took it out through special instruments. They didn't know if they got it all out. My Urologist said I would be going for Cisiscopes for the rest of my life. Well, I stopped those Cisiscopes after 35 years because my Urologist didn't know why I was still having them and to be honest, they hurt real bad, and it took me a couple of days to fully recover. For the first 15 years or so, I took the Sisiscopes without the so-called jell they put in your penis. I use to think when I was having these Sisiscopes, that I was being punished for not being a good person, to have the kind of pain in an area of my body that was designed for pain.
Anyway, I made a deal with Adonai (G-d the Father in Christian terms) that if my life was spared, I would donate half my income each year to charity and I have. And I got initially excited when I saw this site because I still have left over $5,960 from 2017 to give to a charity. I got excited and checked this charity, the American Bladder Cancer out on Charity Navigator. But they didn't rank the charity, since it was way to small. I don;t understand why there are so few revenues here. I try to give to charities that plow at least 92-93% of their money back into their charities. I don't know why the American Bladder Cancer Society takes in so few donations.