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14 years 11 months ago #25697 by Cynthia
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The blood in the urine could be from a urinary tract infection, and that in most cases is the beginning and the end of it. If you are worried it could be a symptom of something more talk to your doctor about another check possibly once the UTI is cleared up.

I am not a doctor but from what I have read blood in the urine is not abnormal when there is a urinary tract infection. What I was referring to is that a lot of us had one UTI after another with blood in the urine prior to our diagnosis and no one thought to check for blood in the urine once the UTI cleared leading to a delay in diagnosis.

Cynthia Kinsella
T2 g3 CIS 8/04
Clinical Trial
Chemotherapy & Radiation 10/04-12/04
Chemotherapy 3/05-5/05
BCG 9/05-1-06
RC w/umbilical Indiana pouch 5/06
Left Nephrectomy 1/09
President American Bladder Cancer Society

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14 years 11 months ago #25696 by sydelle
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Cynthia, I am lost; does blood in urine mean that other than UTI, cancer may be elsewhere, now? He no longer has a bladder, nor urethera, so I assume all urine filters through the kidneys...?

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14 years 11 months ago #25692 by mmc
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As Cynthia already said, yes.

In my case, I was treated for multiple UTIs during a year before I wound up getting referred to a urologist who found the CIS.

They probably were true UTIs though because they were accompanied by the burning pain and frequency. That is to say more frequency than I already had due to enlarged and occasionally enflamed prostate.

People do have blood in the urine with infections w/o having cancer though.

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...

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14 years 11 months ago #25690 by Cynthia
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Simple answer yes..Many people with blc are misdiagnosed as having just a urinary track infection because they assume the blood in their urine is from the infection. That is the reason I feel they should always recheck urine if blood was present after the UTI is gone to make sure the blood is also.

Cynthia Kinsella
T2 g3 CIS 8/04
Clinical Trial
Chemotherapy & Radiation 10/04-12/04
Chemotherapy 3/05-5/05
BCG 9/05-1-06
RC w/umbilical Indiana pouch 5/06
Left Nephrectomy 1/09
President American Bladder Cancer Society

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14 years 11 months ago #25689 by sydelle
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My husband just returned from Sloan, (in patient,) treated for urinary infection, with Tinentin. He was told to go on heavy duty amoxicillin. He apparently had gross blood in urine, seen micrscopically. He had RC and removal of urethera,in 2008 and 2009. CT (non contrast) urograph doesn' t indicate new problem. Can a urine infection throw out blood in urine?:dry: :dry:

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