Hi Pat,
Glad I can eventually give you an article because your always the one helping me
i found it very interesting too, we are going to email Bochner once my dad finishes chemo about doing another TUR and re grade before scheduling Cystectomy, we know its a long shot and we are prepared for surgery now but if we were in the lucky 54% we would be over the moon, we can always hope eh?
I think out of the 54% i.e. 60 people, 48 decided to "wait and see" (presume the others opted for Cystectomy!) and their surivial rate at 10 years was over 74%, that's pretty good odds taking the fact that people of all ages were in the study!!
On the positive side with your RC, at least you know the cancer was REMOVED!!! That gives peace of mind....and I think you wouldn't change you stoma for anything now LOL
The link is:
annonc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/9/1360
If you gain any more info from the article let me know, cause I'm new to this i find some parts of the medical articles a bit hard going