Hi @sue225. Don't know whether I can be helpful to your husband, but I wanted you to know that I'll do whatever I can if you think so. I had bladder cancer surgery (TURB twice) in 2009. About a dozen papillary tumors were snipped off the epithelium (lining) of my bladder, followed by six BCG treatments to kill off any remaining tumor seeds. None have turned up in 12 years of cystoscopies examining my bladder lining periodically since the BCG treatments.

My father was another matter. He had prostate BPH that was belatedly treated -- too late actually -- because the surgery wrecked his urethra, making it impossible to urinate. The solution was to leave the bladder in place and connect it to an external pouch with a catheter through a "stoma" in his lower abdomen. He lived and thrived with that for a dozen years before he passed in 2007 at the age of 95. He never said he regretted the catheter, although the stoma became inflamed just before he died, and doctors said the infection may have been a factor.

I'll be glad to further explain our experiences if you have any questions. For clinical information that I valued, check https://www.medicinenet.com/bladder_cancer/article.htm. Martin