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My husband was diagnosed during a routine examination with anemia and received an infusion in March . He began to get stomach pains and did not want to eat, we visited various doctors and had multiple different tests and scans. Everyone we were told came out negative except the anemia once more. The VA scheduled him for another infusion but in the interim he stopped eating and passed away last week . The oncologist we saw took a pt test and found he was full of cancer in multiple parts and probably had it over a year.
I am at a loss to understand why no one picked it up. He had a hip replacement in January ,we went in a cruise in February celebrated holidays etc until the end of April thinking all was fine. He had bladder cancer but I’m told that was not the cause .

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Welcome @azrajo, I am so sorry for the loss of your husband. I know how difficult it must be for you trying to understand why no one picked up on the cancer following the infusions for anemia and the hip replacement. You mentioned he had bladder cancer but were told that was not the cause. The American Cancer Society mentions that cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body. For instance, cancer cells in the bladder can travel to the bone and grow there. -- If You Have Bladder Cancer: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/bladder-cancer/if-you-have-bladder-cancer.html.

How are you doing? Do you have family or children around for support?

I’m so sorry 😞. Things get missed unfortunately sometimes.