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@dallio No your wait till March 23rd is ok..After tumor removal they like to wait for the bladder to heal. BCG is the live Tuberculosis vaccine bacteria…You would not want to get that in your blood system….BCG gives off an immune response so your own body will fight the cancer…Great stuff…It took several rounds of 6 week treatments as cancer came back…Stanford (second opinion) said that sometimes immunotherapy BCG possibly may not work the first time, but to do a second round…Now I have been cancer free for 1 1/2 years!! Always best to get a second opinion from a research hospital in the area of cancer you have…The University Hospital wanted to go the Chemo route….I am glade I got the second opinion! It worked!

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@stevedoc thanks. I'm very far from a big hospital. It's 3 hours to the closest one. Were you able to drive the day of your treatment? I don't drive on the highway so my husband would have to do all the driving. He is the one with bladder cancer.