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Barbm816, for the same type of cancer? Are you willing to give me any more information like if it was high-grade or low-grade, or if had been found anywhere else? And is the chemo placed in bladder and how is he doing? Right now surgeon wants me to have chemo BEFORE doing surgery (he still will remove kidney and ureter and bladder cuff) so it would delay removal of cancer for awhile and I would be extremely weak and ill from chemo, only because it is high-grade (not to mention other possible long-term effects); does not look like it has spread anywhere else. The treatment your husband is getting---how is he doing with that? AND thank you for replying...you are only one so far!

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Chemo before surgery is a common and successful approach from several tumor types, including pancreatic cancer and breast cancer. The chemo can help reduce the size of the tumor and make it easier to extract the tumor completely (to oversimplify things).

Sofrustrated, it sounds like you are concerned about having chemo before surgery and that your concern is about delaying the surgery. You just want the cancer out. Am I interpreting that right?

Have you talked to your team about the benefits of chemotherapy before surgery for you? Have you shared your fears?