u/pearpecan

Hi! Posted before, they found a 1 cm tumor in my dad's bladder. Today was his TURBT. Procedure itself took 38 minutes. They did not have to go deep into bladder wall. They did inject chemo in his bladder?

For some reason I thought we'd find out today if muscle invasive but I guess not. Does that come from pathology?

Does all this sound routine? My dad is already awake. Is not going deep in bladder wall a good thing or kind of doesn't mean much?

Thank you all!​

Hi all. So in another post I explained the ED found a 1 cm tumor on my dad's bladder. Today he went for his cystoscopy with the urologist. It's a 1.5cm tumor, looks like a cauliflower? He said they can't see if it's muscle invasive until the turbt where they scrape it off.

Doctor is quite confident that there is no spread and just as confident it is not muscle invasive, but obviously can't say for sure yet.

Told us if it's low-grade, get it scraped every year, if it's high grade, scraped every 6 months. If worse case where it's invasive, etc. - doctor said would not do a bladder removal at my dad's age, but rather would just keep up with the scrapings with a discussion of other possible treatments. Thought is my Dad is quite old and that they would be able to keep up with the cancer that way. But again, Doctor doesn't think it will be that worse case scenario.

So he goes for turbt in May, and he has to be cleared by cardio. My question is it general anesthesia with the tube? or is it more like IV sedation?

thank you all!