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Atypical Squamous Cells in urine cytology

Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Apr 29 12:10pm | Replies (13)
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@vickyhay

Within the last several years, advances in bladder cancer treatment have lead to the questioning of the need for a radical cystectomy. Using translational medicine and tumor genomics, often other treatments are just as proficient, and indeed, bladder sparring is now an option for many. When you point out "metastatic possibilities", a radical cystectomy may decrease this but so can other newer therapies. And thankfully so, for radical cystectomy is indeed life -altering.

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Sue, Volunteer Mentor | @sepdvm | Apr 29 8:25am

Thanks for your input @vickyhay. Unfortunately the standard is still cystectomy and even Mayo Clinic does not discuss other options with much hope for cure. Cystectomy does offer the best option for total cure, and that is what my husband was looking for. I do hope that alternative treatments become more accepted, as the complications associated with neobladder surgery are many. I could not even get his urologist to perform genomic testing on his tumor prior to a trial on immunotherapy in 2020. You know surgeons.... "To cut is to cure".

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