New here: Grandfather with Bladder Cance

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Registered: 03-21-2008
New here: Grandfather with Bladder Cance
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Fri, 03-28-2008 - 9:11pm

My grandfather is in his 80s in advanced stage of bladder cancer.  I've been reading info on bladder cancer, and it says that in that stage they usually go in and take the bladder out, so the cancer wont grow back, but his doctor says thats not the best for him.  Im sure thats because of his age.  They just went in the other day a scraped it out.  He is very depressed, he has literally changed over night from being an active senior to being down in the dumps not wanting to get out of bed and get dressed.  I have hope but realize due to his age and the advanced stage of the cancer he is likely to not pull through this... Does anyone have any kind of info on mortality rates, rates of survival on bladder cancer?

 


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Sat, 03-29-2008 - 12:13am

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