Re: the TURBT--yes, three TURBTs do happen. I don't know how rare they are, but my brother had three of them in less than four months. The situation was different--he wasn't upstaged between the first and second resection--but the purpose was the same: to make sure that the cancer wasn't in the muscle, so that BCG would be the best option. The thing is: first, if the current doctor really thinks that a bladder removal would be possible over-treatment, then he probably really does think that there is a strong possibility that the cancer is still T1 HG. And second--my brother found the third resection the easiest of the three to recover from, fwiw. Good luck to you and your father--