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In reply to the discussion: My friends I have been in this community and love being here. I ask for your prayers and good wishes [View all]Timewas
(2,681 posts)I have beed dealing with stage one bladder cancer for about 10 years now, will start my third round of chemo Monday... if it stays at stage one as it is treated it can be held ok with constant checkups and maybe some small tumers being removed mostlly by burning the off with a laser in office procedures.Some get it under control and can go along fine for many years..The checkups are not fun but fairly tolerable, I do not have a diagnosed prostrate cancer but have known several that did, they went through a prostratectomy and healed and moved on to pretty normal lifes...
Insist on checkups pretty often I have found that to work best for me... they can find them small and take care of them in the office and ot go to OR for TURB (trans uretheral bladder resection) sounds worse than it is have had that 4 times so far..
Best of luck to you