Sargis,
The doctor is suggesting the standard protocol for testing. There should be a 2nd TURBT 4-8 weeks after the first one. The reason for this is that bladder cancer is very often under-diagnosed and therefore under-treated.
Two specimens from a biopsy cannot be identical. They can have similar characteristics but if the doctor slices a tumor in half, it is highly likely that one half is slightly different from the other and one can be invasive to muscle and the the other not. Even two pathologists looking at the same slide can have different interpretations.
He should have the slides from both biopsies shipped back to the hospital in the U.S.
Pathology is open for some amount of interpretation and you want the slides from the two, plus when he gets the next biopsy, to be read at a top pathology center at a top bladder cancer hospital.
I was T2 G3 and am now cancer free for over three years.
Mike
Age 54
10/31/06 dx CIS (TisG3) non-invasive (at 47)
9/19/08 TURB/TUIP dx Invasive T2G3
10/8/08 RC neobladder(at 49)
2/15/13 T4G3N3M1 distant metastases(at 53)
9/2013 finished chemo -cancer free again
1/2014 ct scan results....distant mets
2/2014 ct result...spread to liver, kidneys, and lymph...