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This is the review of my pathology from the cystoscopy and biopsies taken on 14 July:

The slides have been reviewed in conjunction with Dr R Cohen. he agrees that the urothelium shows atypia which is focally full thickness with scattered mitotic activity. There is not the typical marked nuclear enlargement and hyperchromasia usually associated with carcinoma in-situ, however, the features in the current biopsy represent at least low grade dysplasia and follow up is recommended if clinically indicated.

Conclusion:

Bladder - dysplasia, which is of at least low grade and warrants

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(26 July 2006 continued)

He also asked me if I had felt any pain recently on my right side. This, because he couldn't see the orifice for the right ureter. He called in another doctor for his opinion, and he also asked me about the pain on my right side. I haven't had any, so they suspect the path of the urine from the kidney is not obstructed, but the view of the ureter orifice is obscured by something, perhaps related to healing from the 2nd TUR. This second doctor also concurred that the formations at the resection site could be nothing, but were suspicious and needed to be looked at more

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HI

I was looking over my pathology and I noticed in the macroscopic descprition the last sentence reads No stromal invasion is seen and no muslaris propria is seen on the slide.  Can the URO and Pathologist accurately make the statement that the tumor is not invasive if no muscle is seen?  Would the tumor had to have grown into the underlying stroma and then the mucle?  So would it be definitive to say that if the tumor had not grown into the stroma that it could not have grown into the muscle?

Any reply is appreciated

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14 July I had urine cytology done which turned out negative (some good news at last). However, cysto and biopsies done that same day and pathology just to hand has left me hanging yet again. Report from pathologist goes as follows (extract)

Macroscopy
Bladder biopsy - 18 x 15mm in aggregate

Microscopy
There are multiple fragments of bladder mucosa lined in part by epithelium showing regenerative change, however, in areas there is thickening of the epithelium associated with moderate cytologic atypia and scattered mitoses. The underlying stroma contains a patchy predominantly chronic inflammatory

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Pathology report for the 2nd TUR just came back; added it to the second post, above.

Rosemary, I was stationed in Camp LeJeune for my first tour in the Marines. Spent a lot of time in San Diego, years later, though. That's why we're going back there. The Balboa Naval Medical Center in San Diego is being built up into a "West Coast Bethesda." I've consulted with a doctor in their urology department, who also invited me to stop in with my records for a face-to-face opinion during our previously scheduled vacation in San Diego (where our son still lives). However, I'll now have my treatment in

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the good wishes. I actually wound up in the hospital today. Woke up w/persistent pain in the lower abdomen. Felt nauseous a few times, and finally got sick after about 3 hours. By this time, I figured I had gotten food poisoning from eating out last night, but decided to go in anyway to make sure there was nothing connected with the BC and nothing that would complicate tomorrow's scheduled TUR.

Diagnosis was food poisoning, but no diarrhea, so, according to my uro, no problem with the surgery as long as that remained the case (which it did). The urine test showed higher

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Hi,

Here is my Story(BTW im from the UK)
I passed a blood clot out of the Blue with no other symptoms whatsoever on may 17th this year (My 42nd Birthday) late in the evening. In panic I went to the emergency room in my town and the next morning I had a cystoscopy(is that how you spell it?) and they said I had cancer or an Infection and put me on antibiotics.
10 days later the bleeding stopped(wahoo im cured?), 4 days later I go into hospital to have the 'thing' removed.  The urologists said straight after the operation that it was a tumour and referred me to another consultant.
That Guy said it

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i don't think they can do anything about the reflux... i'm guessin they're doin all they can at the moment. as i said, their main concern is my overall kidney function, which at present is, although not 100%, quite good. Do u get renal colic at all? i had 2 huuuge stones when i was 12, surgically removed but now I seem to get pain every 3 or 4 mnths (which i'm self-diagnosing as renal colic, admittedly) but don't mention it to the dr's as i'm not sure they'd be able to do anything anyway. Plus, it's just pain, it doesn't usually involve temperature or nausea or anything. Still, it's bl*&^y

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So now it has been time to try to get a grip on the nature of my peculiar visitation of the disease. It presents a bit of a quandary. If it had been TaG1, no dilemma: keep the bladder, pursue a disciplined maintenance program, and outlive the disease. If it had been a T2G3, say, also no dilemma: the result, probably sooner rather than later, is going to be a bladder removal and reconstruction in order to defeat the cancer before it can progress beyond the bladder and become life-threatening. But a TaG3? Which side of that will prove to be the fundamental characteristic of the

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Hello everyone.

I thought it might be time to start recording here my experiences with this disease, before too much time goes by, and so I have as fresh and accurate a baseline as possible to come back to, myself, for reference.

I served 21 years in the USMC, retired to San Diego where my wife completed her doctorate in clinical psychology, and then we moved to our current home in Istanbul, Turkey, where she was born. I lived a life of clean habits and pure thoughts characteristic of the typical US Marine infantryman, with the exception that I smoked cigarettes - heavily. Probably 2-3

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