Dear Wendy:
Thanks so much for your input, and your effort to get information. I could tolerate the dilations for every cystoscopy and can't say I ever had major symptoms from the stricture until the episode in December when everything got so inflamed I was in pain for a month. It's not that I'm anxious to have a procedure done. I'm willing to wait and see if the stricture can still be managed conservatively. But I can't have a urologist who thinks what I went through was not related to the stricture and treats the whole incident as if it was inconsequential as long as I'm cancer-free. When you consider the role inflammation plays in cancer development and the inflamed hemorrhagic appearance of my bladder when the covering urologist opened the stricture at an operative cystoscopy, I hope I'm lucky enough to remain cancer-free. Anyway, we'll see what the new urologist says. I have an appointment on July 11. He's young, but was recommended by a urological oncologist I've been in touch with from Harvard. I figure 20 years from now, when I'm old (I'll be 59 tomorrow, July 1)and need a really good urologist, he'll be experienced and still active in practice ;D
-Warren
-Warren
TaG3 + CIS 12/2000. TURB + Mitomycin C (No BCG)
Urethral stricture, urethroplasty 10/2009
CIS 11/2010 treated with BCG. CIS 5/2012 treated with BCG/interferon
T1G3 1/2013. Radical Cystectomy 3/5/2013, No invasive cancer. CIS in right ureter.
Incontinent. AUS implant 2/2014. AUS explant 5/2014
Pediatrician