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Bladder Cancer/Small cell bladder cancer
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My 73-year-old father was diagnosed with muscle invasive small cell cancer of the bladder in October 2018. He went through a few rounds of immunotherapy treatments before undergoing a radical cystectomy a few weeks ago and so far is adjusting well to the stoma. Followed up with the oncologist and was told nine lymph nodes were removed and one showed evidence of small cell carcinoma. He is now scheduled to go through five treatments of Cisplatin/Etoposid. Has anyone else been diagnosed with this type of bladder cancer and or does anyone have any experience with this type of chemotherapy agents (what to expect, etc.)
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Good Morning@tattrigo,
my partner had his 6 th cycle of Cisplatin/ Etoposid on Wednesday/ Thursday/Friday.
At the beginning of each cycle he starts with a medicine against nausea.
The name is Akynzeo, its very good.
The first day, the Cisplatin- day is pretty long, up to 6 hours, because of the additional NACL ( to take care of the kidneys)
He should drink a lot, thats very important
.He has side effects like a moderate Nausea, sometimes headache, muscle pain, but its tolerable.
I‘m also in the german bladder forum, there are also some small cell bladder Patients.
Two had to stop the chemotherapy, one woman said, it was like hell, but its 6 years ago
I think its very invidual.
Is his cancer local or did it spread?
Good look for your father 🙏🏼🤞🏼
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Hi @tattrigoo, welcome to Connect. You'll notice that I moved your message to this existing discussion about Small Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder (SCCB). I did this so you can easily meet others talking about small cell bladder cancer, like @samasama @jimmy2248 @sandielegal and @whitneyvet. Click VIEW & REPLY to scroll through past comments.
@samasama's partner recently had chemo - Cisplatin/Etoposid and @jimmy2248 underwent the same regimen a little while ago, so hopefully they can answer questions and share their experiences with you. @sandielegal what treatments did you have?
@tattrigoo, how did you father tolerate the immunotherapy? Was it Keytruda?