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Suggest Treatment For Recurring Bladder Cancer

Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2015

Question: Bleeding stopped soon after I contacted you . Fine last three weeks. My last biopsies were negatve, but my urologist feels I should still have cystoscopies twice a year. He usually sees some mild inflammation. He feels in situ bladder cancer can come back. How likely is this? Over the past several years , I have had several series of BCG treatments which seems to have helped.

Answered by Dr. Dr. P. T. Patil (4 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Cystoscopy at frequent is always safe .

Detailed Answer:
Hello
Thanks fr follow up .
Cancer of the bladder has tendency to recur hence we always advise Cystoscopic review every six months for 2-3 years to be rest assured that it has not recur again.

If Urologist suspects to it recur again you may need to fulgurate it again .
Do not worry as long as it remains in situ.There is no harm in doing repeated fulguration .

Thanks and Regards.
Dr.Patil.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Raju A.T

Follow up: Dr. Dr. P. T. Patil (14 hours later)

I had to look up the word "fulgurate".....I have never had these electrical treatments, only several BCG series

Answered by Dr. Dr. P. T. Patil (48 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Fulguration means burning tissue with electric current .

Detailed Answer:
Hello
Thanks for follow up.
Fulguration is burning suspected growth with electric current which was done earlier during first sitting(Scraping)

Thanks and Regards.
Dr.Patil ,

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar