PST wrote:
PST - That's good news regarding your staging and classification data! Hopefully you will remain in a stable condition for years to come. To reinforce your urologist's decision to wait for intravescial therapy and monitor your condition, I offer this segment from the NIH National Cancer Institute's discussion on Stage 0 (Ta,N0,M0 and Tis,N0,M0) bladder cancer:
"Intravesical therapy with thiotepa, mitomycin, doxorubicin, or bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is most often used in patients with **multiple tumors or recurrent tumors** or as a prophylactic measure in high-risk patients after TUR. Administration of intravesical BCG plus subcutaneous BCG following TUR was compared with TUR alone in patients with Ta and T1 lesions. Treatment with BCG delayed progression to muscle-invasive and/or metastatic disease, improved bladder preservation, and decreased the risk of death from bladder cancer."
Source:
www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/bladder/HealthProfessional/page5.
The NIH NCI website has lots of information and references on our affliction.
Cheers - Maryland Mike