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pre op prep
- By joybob · New reply September 5, 2009
- 16 replies
- Well we got a prescription for B ob for before his surgery to clean out bowels. It is something that he took before and made him throw up, It was colyte. Then they said another one, and the phymacist ...
frankincense
- By joybob · New reply September 3, 2009
- 31 replies
- OK don't laugh, while at md anderson houston, in the waiting room there were pamphets, I picked this one up on frankincense, the headline was message scent news. .It reads in park, United press 3/18/09 ...
Appliance Choice for Ileal Conduit
- By EG-NJMason · New reply August 31, 2009
- 7 replies
- I've had my urostomy for almost four months (and all is going very well !) but I have some questions for the group about your choice of manufacturer for the wafer and bag. I started with Hollister in ...
Good news, I think.
- By Bewellcells · New reply August 28, 2009
- 3 replies
- I had an alarming amount of hematuria in the urine, so my doctor did a cystocopy and a CT scan first. The bladder looked fine in the cystocopy, and the CT scan revealed no blockages or tumors in the bladder ...
IMRT for bladder cancer
- By cat22 · New reply August 26, 2009
- 5 replies
- This looks promising: Hughes Cancer Center in Pennsylvania is now using IMRT for bladder cancer. "Additionally, IMRT is now being used as a bladder cancer treatment in those who have had more traditional ...
someone asked about modified citrus pectin
- By joybob · New reply August 23, 2009
- 17 replies
- Dr. Moss in his book says this would be good for cancer patients. The dosage is 5 grams, 3 times a day. If you went online to the Moss Report you might get some information on this. It is suppose to boost ...
To Becky
- By EG-NJMason · New reply August 23, 2009
- 10 replies
- I don't know what to put this under.. but this is to Beckey. I may be but one voice but it's mine. I have faced my mortality.. a couple of times and your question does not disturb me at all..Jim Morrison ...
clinic in California
- By joybob · New reply August 19, 2009
- 3 replies
- has anyone heard from the person that went for the hyperthemia treatment in June in California. Remember they didn't want the r/c. I never heard any more post. I was wondering how they made out. Joycee ...
Not to scare, Just to Help
- By spartyman · New reply August 18, 2009
- 13 replies
- My insurance would not allow me to be admitted the day before my surgery. Wespen a month preparing preparing me physically, emotionally and spritually for the radical. The morning of surgery I was , of ...
National Cancer Institute Website
- By 15yrsurvivor · Posted August 15, 2009
- 0 replies
- I ran across this website today. It has a lot of interesting information about new treatments, drug trials, chemo, etc. Some of the info is bladder cancer specific in addition to a page devoted entirely ...
Discovery Could Revolutionize Chemo
- By 15yrsurvivor · New reply August 15, 2009
- 4 replies
- The title of this discussion is the front-page headline of my morning newspaper. It is obviously too long to repeat here, but the essence of the article is that "Researchers say they can identify drugs ...
Interesting Factoid
- By spartyman · New reply August 13, 2009
- 9 replies
- My alma mater is Michigan State University. GO GREEN! I just read in our local paper this morning . Dr. Barnett Rosenburg, who discovered cisplatin, passed away. He fell upon this discovery while researching ...
DOCTORS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
- By ChicagoGene · New reply August 9, 2009
- 32 replies
- On August 16th BCAN is hosting the Fourth Annual Bladder Cancer Think Tank Meeting in Jackson Hole Wyoming. This meeting is a unique opportunity for a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, scientists ...
Team Approach Improves Treatment Plan
- By Moonerj · New reply August 8, 2009
- 5 replies
- A multidisciplinary approach to the management of urologic malignancies: Does it influence diagnostic and treatment decisions? - Abstract Thursday, 06 August 2009 Division of Urologic Surgery, The University ...
NMP22 (TUMOR ASSOCIATED MARKERS)
- By Ken-Mal · New reply August 5, 2009
- 12 replies
- Hello All, I've been reading about the urine test for NMP22 (nuclear matrix protein 22) that is an indicator of bladder cancer. According to what I have read this urine test should be completed along ...
Dr Jerome Ritchie at Brigham Womens Hosp
- By lyke2travel · New reply August 5, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hi there, I called Boston today to schedule my surgery. I was wondering how it was I got the Chief of Urology as my Surgeon for the 2nd opinion and realized they just set me up with whoever. The point ...
Uro Surgeons NEEDED
- By lyke2travel · New reply August 5, 2009
- 49 replies
- By advisement of my friends and family at BCAN I am asking anyone out there surgeon or other what Surgical procedure would be best for a 57 year old woman with BC T3 B stage 3 to consider. Conventional ...
need info-not sure from where
- By grampadonut · New reply August 3, 2009
- 5 replies
- saw young niece today and she finally talked to someone about her illness (felt very honored..it was me) she said she has "cutaneous b-cell lymphoma"..being treated with retuyin (1xwkly) this is second ...
uninsured and need advice.
- By hightimes · New reply August 1, 2009
- 32 replies
- I just found this forum as i began researching the subject of bladder cancer so i hope im posting this in the right area. I began reading some posts and decided to immediately join. I am writing this ...
Mom has bladder cancer, Stage T1, Grade 3
- By kifisia · New reply July 31, 2009
- 18 replies
- A bit of background information: My 73 year old mother, who lives in the suburbs of Athens, Greece had an ultrasound on May 11, 2009 that indicated multiple papillomas. She was scheduled for surgery on ...
