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Any other females here with bladder cancer in their 50's?
Bladder Cancer | Last Active: Apr 29, 2023 | Replies (9)Comment receiving replies
Hi Podrunner1, so nice to meet you! And thank you so much for the response.
I have high grade urothelial non muscle invasive bladder cancer. It took longer than expected. It was the holidays and I want to say it was a couple of weeks. I had a cystoscopy in his office, they got me in for TURBT surgery at the hospital, and it was approximately 2 weeks after that when I received my results. He said protocol was to remove tumor, then BCG treatments for the next 3 years. They started out with 6, and all cystoscopy checks have been negative so 3 treatments every 3 months for the first 18 months, then twice a year. If everything stays negative the BCG treatments will only be annually after that.
I'm so sorry to learn that you are awaiting your diagnosis. I know how anxious you must be feeling, Podrunner1. If you have any questions, or just need to talk I'm here for you. I will be praying for good results for you. God bless you.
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I have had stage II muscle invasive bladder cancer and am now cancer free and doing my own version of maintenance as follows:
You might want to look at taking 95% standardized curcumin wit black pepper extract to both help recovery and possibly inhibit reccurrance, I would reccomend 1000 mg doses posssibly more than once a day. It is know to reduce side effects of treatment.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6277549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840955/
Also "timed release" vitamin C is helpful for building the immune system.
There are now less invasive ways to check for reccurance than cystoscopy. You can now take a simple DNA blood test customized for your biopsy cancer DNA. I have taken the Signatera https://www.natera.com/ and just to make sure there was no false negative I also took the Galleri test, which also looks for many other types of cancer. I believe Natura is FDA approved while Galleri is not yet approved, But I think it will be.
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Talltxlady, thanks so much for getting back with me! You are so kind and it's very nice to meet you as well.😁 Yes, I am very anxious right now. I worry a lot about my family and not myself. They rely on me so much for my love and support. I lost my mom last May and know how hard it is to lose that. Anyway, the cancer diagnosis and the type just need to be confirmed at this point. I'm a very positive person so, have been laughing my way through this as much as I can. Laughter really is the best medicine! Hope that you have a great day and God bless!