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Site maintenance - Wednesday December 3rd

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply 3:19 pm
  • 7 replies
  • Hello everyone. We'll be upgrading some bits of Inspire during the evening of Wednesday, December 3rd. As a result Inspire will be offline from roughly 7 pm to midnight Eastern time. Thanks so much for ...

UPDATE ON MY DAUGHTER'S GLIOMABLASTOMA

MMB
  • By MMB · New reply 7:09 am
  • 5 replies
  • Hello my BCAN family I just wanted to give you an update on my daughter. So many of you had responded for my plea for support in September. She has gone through 42 days of chemo in pill form (temador)sp ...

Can you be on-call?

Karego
  • By Karego · New reply yesterday at 5:19 pm
  • 15 replies
  • Dear members, As a Bladder Cancer patient volunteer for the BCAN foundation, I often am asked by the staff to contact a person who has inquired of them regarding their need to talk to others who are on ...

Stoma cups, handi-rings and ring around the Rosie

Tacoma
  • By Tacoma · Posted yesterday at 10:59 am
  • 0 replies
  • I found these items online at RCS company. I wonder if any of you have tried any of these and what you thought of them ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply December 1, 2008
  • 35 replies
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

2nd week BCG

PureSymmetry
  • By PureSymmetry · New reply November 29, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Well, yesterday was my second treatment for BCG. I am overcoming superficial bladder cancer and been doing so for the last year. I am a young and sprightly 34 years old! Last week was easy, no side effects ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 28, 2008
  • 134 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Second Opinion can bring good news

Ken-Mal
  • By Ken-Mal · New reply November 24, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • Hi it's Ken.... Well I finally got to Dana Farber cancer in Boston, MA for that all importnt second opinion. It was real good news and they agreed with my urologist 100%. So I'll have the cystoscopy on ...

October 29, 2008 Going to surgery

PRODUCTSJOHN
  • By PRODUCTSJOHN · New reply November 24, 2008
  • 13 replies
  • This morning I am going to the hospital, and I will be spending the night. Tomorrow morning on October 30, 2008 I will have my bladder removal surgery at the Cleveland Wade Park VA Hospital by Dr. Jaeger ...

i lost my mommy on sunday nov 2

tmcdubez
  • By tmcdubez · New reply November 24, 2008
  • 10 replies
  • God gave us a angel right here on earth. She taught us values,and gave us self worth. she guided us through life with wisdom and Gods light. She lead us from wrong, and lead towards right. She stood by ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 23, 2008
  • 24 replies
  • I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Tomorrow

katzwhisker
  • By katzwhisker · New reply November 18, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • I guess the fact that I'll even BE here tomorrow is gift enough. But, being human, that's not ENOUGH. I want this cancer removed. I'm worried, of course about recurrence, but moreso about HEALING. I've ...

CELEBRATION!!!!!!!

Annasvenska
  • By Annasvenska · New reply November 17, 2008
  • 16 replies
  • Today it was 6 weeks ago since I had my neobladder surgery and...today I ran for the first time!!!! My endurance had decreased quite a bit and I wasn't very fast either but I was able to run approx 1 ...

BCG Has Finally Worked

Moonerj
  • By Moonerj · New reply November 15, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • After 3 operations and 18 BCG treatments, no success. But, since Doc started me on a BCG treatment every 4 weeks for 1 year, I have had no tumor recurrences. The BCG has become harder and harder on my ...

nayersblog

nayers
  • By nayers · New reply November 11, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • My mother was diagnosed with bladder cancer on October 24. She had been suffering from incontinence for the past five years and in September started having vaginal bleeding, which was the first real sign ...

October 17th Pathology Report

Ken-Mal
  • By Ken-Mal · New reply November 2, 2008
  • 26 replies
  • Hello, This is Ken. On Friday I was told the results of my TUR indicated I have T1 Stage A bladder cancer. I guess also called Transitional Cell Cancer. My doctor said one of the tumors was 1/2 the size ...

SAT 9/13/08

PRODUCTSJOHN
  • By PRODUCTSJOHN · New reply October 30, 2008
  • 15 replies
  • AFTER 2 PRIOR SURGERIES TO REMOVE A MALIGNANT TUMOR AND CHEMO TREATMENTS, UNFORTUNATELY, THE TUMOR REOCCURRED IN A DIFFERENT AREA. IT IS NOW INVADING INTO THE MUSCLE AND IS GETTING CLOSE TO THE PROSTATE ...

OCTOBER 29 1PM SURGERY POSTPONED 2 WEEKS

PRODUCTSJOHN
  • By PRODUCTSJOHN · New reply October 30, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • I arrived at the hospital for my surgery appointment with a pretty bad cold. After discussions among the doctors they decided to postpone the surgery for 2 weeks. They felt that since my cold started ...

my mom

tmcdubez
  • By tmcdubez · New reply October 29, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • spent the nite with mom.her pain is becoming worse i can,t stand to watch her suffer ,it hurts my heart and soul so much if i could trade placeses with her i would.my heart is so heavy right now i don,t ...

waiting

cdvdson83
  • By cdvdson83 · New reply October 25, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • My mom was diagnosed last week with bladder cancer, and its just been so nerve wrecking. My brother had cancer three years ago and is now in remission, so we've already had a run in with all the emotions ...

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