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On Friday my husband who is a young 80, had the TURBT procedure after a CT scan showed a tumor. The cystoscopy after this showed one large tumor and several other smaller ones that were high grade. He had been having microscopic blood in his urine for quite a while but the first cystoscopy a year ago didn't show anything. I feel that it was missed so that in itself is extremely frustrating. It was only taken seriously when he bled into the toilet. We immediately switched doctors. One of the tumors seen on Friday was CIS so the new urologist said that there is a very high chance of recurrence. My husband has a follow up at the end of the week so hopefully the pathology report will be back by then so we know where we are heading. So far, unless there is a major change, he recommended six BCG treatments that will start after healing and then another TURBT procedure. Then there will be very close monitoring. He is surviving the catheter which he can remove tomorrow and luckily had no spasms with it this time which he had after a Urolift two years ago. I know this is going to be a change of life situation and more so because of the high grade diagnosis. Thank you for reading this!!!

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@neisie13 good luck on TURBT recovery. It takes a while. Also, good luck on the BCG treatments!

@neisie13 You are right, cancer certainly is life changing, but hopefully can be managed to control if not cure the cancer. My husband had a highly aggressive muscle invasive bladder cancer that was also missed by local doctors. At Mayo Clinic ha has had multiple Turbts and chemo and was a BCG failure once on maintenance. He had minimal issues with the BCG treatment tho. He ended up after two years of recurrences choosing radical cystectomy and neobladder formation. He has been cancer free, must self catheterize 3-4 times daily, and is happy with his choice. It was a massive surgery though, with multiple complications during the healing process. It sounds like your new urologist is on top of the diagnosis and treatment so you were wise to switch. Referrals and second opinions are valuable. Good luck in this journey.