My husband with stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer who endured chemo and 2 rounds of SBRT was diagnosed with bladder cancer via a Cystoscopy.
He had his Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumor surgery yesterday. Surprise was that the cancer had gone up a ureter towards his kidney.
Anyone else have this diagnosis after SBRT of the prostate??
It's the other way around. Men with bladder cancer are more likely to have second cancers. Maybe a common genomic cause -- who knows?
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We're waiting for the pathology report to be sure it's bladder cancer and not prostate cancer that metastesized to his bladder/kidney, but the Urologist is pretty sure. So ... what do you think?
My brother had bladder cancer, he lost one kidney but was cured, was cured of colon cancer also. There is hope that your husband that he will do well, his was due to smoking and alcohol abuse for years, same with the colon cancer.
Just to be clear....that your brother smoked and drank excessively is not proof that those habits caused his cancers....many men with same habits never have those cancers!! Hopefully your brother hasn't been told that such habits caused his cancers.....he has/had enuf to deal with...without a guilt trip added.
But it is a contributing factor and raises the chance of those type of cancers, look it up and you will see, their is no family history of those in our family tree. As is nitrates added to things is another contributing factor, it raises the chance of cancers. A six pack of beer daily is excessive as is having to have it on trips he and his wife used to go on. He also smoked since 9 years of age that is another contributing factor and he has stints and heart disease. My sister died of lung cancer 3 years ago, they heated for years with wood and she had mold in the trailer after moving from a cabin. Just saying the bad stuff in smoke could have been a contributing factor, she are healthy, excercised and was very health minded. As far as prostate cancer, I avoided some processed food, are healthy and did most of the right things but it hit with age and my father could have had it but died of a massive heart attack after a stroke 20 years earlier. I do not tell him it is his fault, he is an adult making his own decisions good or bad but it is what it is and probably a heart failure will take his life.
" I do not tell him it is his fault," Good ....thank you for saying that!! Those risk factors you mention...I think the most we can say about various risk factors is "could have contributed" .
Interesting. Dr. Smith suggests that radiation for prostate cancer may increase the risk of developing bladder cancer, and that fiducial markers placed in your prostate for better radiation guidance may help reduce this risk. I had 4 fiducial markers inserted into my prostate before my radiation treatments, but later was told that the lower part of my bladder was going to be intentionally radiated at the same time as my prostate in case there was some spread of cancer there. Seems somewhat contradictory to what Dr. Smith is saying in this video.
My mother developed bladder cancer, followed by lung and liver cancer. Our family doesn't have a history of very much cancer until recently with my brother and I with prostate cancer, but my mother smoked for 50 years. Dr. Smith claims that bladder cancer is more prevalent in lower socioeconomic status groups because of disparities in health care, but smoking is also more common in these groups, and I wonder if that could be a factor, or if it already was accounted for in the statistical analysis.
Yes, I too have recently been diagnosed with advanced bladder cancer. Diagnosis is from this tumor NOT lighting up on the PSMA-PET scan I had a few weeks ago. The tumor is through the bladder muscle (per MRI) so I cannot have it resected. I started palliative radiation therapy last week to attempt to control the urinary bleeding that has been plaguing me since November. I cannot have potentially curative radiation therapy because I had whole-pelvic salvage radiation 10 years ago. This also means I had to stop the immunotherapy trial drugs for my CRPCa that I have been on since December, but these can re-start in mid-April. The alternative to this approach would have been to stop everything and undergo another round of chemotherapy. I concurred with my oncology care team to hold that in reserve.
You and your husband are not traveling alone.
Best wishes.
So sorry to hear this, tallguy2! The sad thing is ... most everyone on this site has someone with the same new cancers, symptoms, etc. It's nice to have others to talk to, but for a sad reason. You take care, and keep in touch please.
so, evryone who smoked that much has had bladder cancer.......OR, do studies show that such smoking is a risk factor? Same for alcohol. Well, you can make him feel bad about that now....... just to what point???
Looking for 2nd opinion at Duke re new bladder cancer
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