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Prostate and Bladder Issues: What to do?

Men's Health | Last Active: Mar 8 12:51pm | Replies (163)
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@delmar418

I'm sorry about your diagnosis, I can't imagine what and how this must affect you. I'm glad you're here. There are a lot of good people here and although I am not familiar with your diagnosis through personal experience (I have imagined it myself!), there are people, moderators, who will give you helpful suggestions and guidance to more areas within Mayo, this being one of them I believe, and there may be people here who are or have dealt with the same experience. Is your bladder diagnosis in any way connected with an enlarged prostate, retaining urine? Is the bladder cancer "secondary" to the primary problem that caused all of this in the first place? Perhaps your doctor didn't tell you? They have a habit of doing that.

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sender | @sender | Dec 8, 2023

Thanks so much for your reply.
They will phone me on Monday with a surgery date.

Don't see enlarged prostate symptoms.
The only symptoms I've had is reoccurring UTI.

Smoking is the probable cause of this cancer.
When urologist checked it he had me look at the screen, it was ugly.
He said that's pretty big you must have had it a long time and that it was in the front of the bladder which he indicated as not good.

They want to cut it out immediately which scares me, no more time to think.

I just read about recovery from the surgery, it was comforting, not a long recovery.
But what's next, you never know what could happen next after they analyze the tumor.

I'll keep up here with info.
And thanks again for taking time to reply to me.

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