Cystoscopic Exam

I went to the Urologist last week for a Cystoscopic exam. Whe the doctor was nearly done with the exam, he filled my bladder with sterile water. Before leaving the room, He instructd me that I go go and pee into the small portable toilet beside the table. He left, and I waited for the nurse to leave also. She turned to me and told me it was ok, just get up and empty my bladder. I did as instructed, but felt a little awkward peeing with the nurse in the room peering over my shoulder watching. The results of that test and of an CT IVP I had earlier showed a very much enlarged Prostate as well as Bladder Cancer.

I'm sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Please keep us updated on your treatment and progress, if you feel comfortable doing so. It's a learning curve for us all. Best wishes for a good prognosis!

Hopefully you will have a good outcome. Bladder cancer is very curable if it's caught early, and most enlarged prostates are not due to cancer at all (depending on your age). Sincere best wishes to you for some better news. FYI, the uroflow test where you peed into the funnel or bucket is monitored electronically and did not require anyone to be in the room with you. The nurse should have left and let you maintain some dignity. Feel free to ask them to leave if you have this done in the future.

Best wishes as well

Going to go in the 8th of May and have the work done. They are going to first ream out the prostate as it is very enlarged, then move on to get rid of the cancer. As I understand, the doc is going to use a YAG laser and burn the cancer away after taking a biopsy to see how far the cancer has spread. It is all to be done on an out-patient basis, so in and out for me, all on the same day. I should add that the cancer is in the bladder as I have one form of bladder cancer.

Wishing you all the best on your treatment and a good outcome curly. I had a brush with possible prostate cancer earlier this year (biopsies were negative) and I know the anticipation and worry you're likely going through at this time.

Sorry to hear this. Wish you all the best and hope you get well soon

Hang in there - hopefully they caught it early.

Curly66, best of luck and hope every thing goes well.

Best of luck with your treatment Curly!

I had the surgery this past Tuesday (May 😎. The doctor did get the prostate reamed out real good so now urine flows freely through there. After working on the prostate, he moved on up to remove the cancerous tissue fromthe bladder. Apperantly, the tool was a little short, so he only got one of the tumors in the bladder. He had to order another longer tool, so when it comes in, back into outpatient surgery I will go for the removal of the remaiming cancerous tumor, and as to when that will be, I can only guess. Righ now wearing a catherter bag for a week till what surgery was done heals.

Well, the longer tool to reach the tumor up high in the bladded is in. I go in tomorrow at noon to have it removed, then will have to wear a bag for a week when they will then remove the cathater. Will be told then what, if any cancer treatments I will need.

Best of luck Curly!

Take care!

Good luck from here.

I wish you the best curly! Let's hope you get some good news.

Best of luck from a cancer survivor. Keep the faith and keep your chin up

Got the reports back from the doctor and I DO have Bladder Cancer. For the treatment program, I am going to be takeing BGC treatments, one a week for 6 weeks. Then in September, the doctor wants to do another surgical raound so he can go in and biopsy the bladder to make sure I am cancer free.

Sorry to hear that. If you would ever like to talk to someone that has buried two husbands/sole mates to cancer and is a survivor myself send me a message. Sending prayer for you and for guidance for you medical team.

Back in July, I had bleeding problem from the bladder. I was taking Plavix to thin the blood, and it interacted with the bladder and caused me to have excessive bleeding. Went to the emergency room and they were able to get the bleeding stopped, but I had lost a lot of blood, so they had to give me 2 units to build my system back up.

Due to the bleeding, I had to stop my BCG treatments for several weeks, but restarted the treatments last week. Go tomorrow for another treatment which will be treatment number 4, with 2 more to go.

Curly; Can you give us any more information on what this "BCG" treatment actually does for cancer removal?

@watertrain

BCG is an active Tuberculosis bacterium that is instilled into the Bladder and left there for 2 hours to work. The therory is that the BCG will irritate the bladder lining, thereby causing the cancer cells not to adhere to the lining of the bladder. After holding the liquid in the bladder, you are allowed to go and SIT on the toilet to empty out, then add two (2) cups of household bleach and allow it to sit for twenty minutes to break-up the BCG for disposal. You do that for 4 hours. Tehn you can wash, shower or whatever to clean up.

For mor information, go to the following link for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_Calmette%E2%80%93Gu%C3%A9rin

Went to the Urologist office today for a check-up as I have finished the BCG treatments. He did a cystoscopic exam, inserting it in thru the penis and up into the bladder. The report her gave me was "I don't see anything in the way of cancerous tissue lining the bladder walls." He did take a urine sample and is going to send it to a lab for examination under the microscope to see if there are a cancer cells in the urine. If nothing is found, I go back in 3 months for another Cystoscopic exam and urine test.

This thread brings back memories. My late father (died 1997) had bladder cancer for a number of years. The doctors held off on BCG opting for ThioTEPA instead as my father had tuberculosis when he was in his twenties in the late 1940's. There were no antibiotics then and the tuberculosis germs were in a calcified cyst in his lung. As such, there were worried that BCG might cause a reactivation. When he stopped responding to the other treatments, they decided to try BCG to no avail. I assume the cancer type you were diagnosed with is transitional cell carcinoma as that is what my father had.

I do have the Transitional Cell Carcinoma.

I did had a cysoscopy at my doctor. I wasn't much painfull. But i felt very embarassing at this as i was laying there like at my gynecologist and the doctor moved the scope inside my bladder.

I went back to the Urologist this morning to have another check-up on my bladder for cancer. The doc came in and pulled the paper sheet eown and injected some numbing solution into the penis before inserting the Cystoscope. Once he got the cystoscope in, he looked all around in the bladder, all the while having the nurse injest some steerile water and gas intothe bladder so he could see better. He then withdrew the scope and allowed me to get dressed.

Then in about 5 minutes he came back into the room to discus with me what he seen. I have another tumor up on the dome or top of the bladder which he is going to removee surgically in January. Will know more what is coming next when I go back a week later to have the cathater removed.

Curlyt66

Hope everything goes smooth with the surgery. Keep us updated.

Went in last Tuesday (Jan 8th) and had another tumor removed, and then back to doctor of Friday the 11th for the report. This tumor was also cancerous, but according to the lab report the cancer was not as aggressive as the first tumors were. Doc says to wait and see what happens, and come back to the office in 3 months for another cystoscopyic exam. At least this time I don't have to worry about getting anymore BCG instilled into the bladdeer for chemo..

Hey Curly, I had a bladder tumor removed 16 years ago, it was not too aggressive , and there was only the one tumor, it had not spread. You doctor has probably told you this type of cancer is very treatable, you will have a lot of cystoscopies, bladder washes etc, just to be certain it does not return. Thank God we have the medical knowledge to easily and effectively treat this type of cancer - hang in there!