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Hey Greg, Thanks for the reply. Actually, we did discuss the option of Mytomicin, but my uro felt better with trying the immunotherapy again rather than chemotherapy.  

Not saying that we won't eventually end up giving that a try...

Of course, he reminds me that we may have to some day face taking the bladder out - oh. sure, like I forgot and thanks for the reminder ;D - but we still have options left before we get to that point. I'm still kind of attached to it, you know  ::).

but I have started back on my holistic routine again as well - probably should never have backed off of that either. I

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Hi all. I was on this site, reading and posting, back in 2004, early 2005. I had my first experience with bladder cancer in June 2004.

Female, age 47 then (50 now)

Single 3 cm tumor, T1 (almost T2a, but dodged that bullet by a fortunate layer or two of cells), grade 2/3. TURBT on June 4, 2004 & quit smoking the night before surgery, haven't touched one since. Re-TURBed early July to be sure the muscle wall was not involved. No invasion of the muscle wall.

Began 6 weeks of BCG, in August 2004, but had such horrible bladder spasms and pain from it, the dose was reduced. Although I managed to make

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