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Sep. 13th, 2004 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgJust got off the phone with Mom - all the imaging came back negative. The cancer is contained within the bladder. She sounds better, feels a bit better - but there are still concerns.
That one kidney is still not coming back online - hard to tell with all the antibiotics and so forth, but concerning. Chemotherapy is more difficult to do safely with only one kidney - so removing the bladder becomes more likely.
But no workup has been done there yet - so it's early.
And this type of diagnosis is hard to decide treatment for. There is a large body of professionals who only believe a good cure is removal. There is just as large a body of people who work very hard to spare the bladder and do radiation and chemo.
Yadda ya. I'm tired. I've got paperwork to do and then I'm going to bed.
That one kidney is still not coming back online - hard to tell with all the antibiotics and so forth, but concerning. Chemotherapy is more difficult to do safely with only one kidney - so removing the bladder becomes more likely.
But no workup has been done there yet - so it's early.
And this type of diagnosis is hard to decide treatment for. There is a large body of professionals who only believe a good cure is removal. There is just as large a body of people who work very hard to spare the bladder and do radiation and chemo.
Yadda ya. I'm tired. I've got paperwork to do and then I'm going to bed.
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Date: 2004-09-13 11:36 pm (UTC)Though my choice would be "whatever kills the cancer," I wish her the least invasive, most effective treatment possible. What an awful place to get cancer, as if there were good places . . . .
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Date: 2004-09-14 07:52 am (UTC)This is actually a pretty good place to get cancer - hers had been left to stew for too long, that's what there's so much more to do.
If she had been sent in for a simple ultrasound at the first sign of kidney function changes - this would have been done with the first surgery. *sighs*
"Whatever kills the cancer" in this case is total removal of the bladder - by the statistics. The kick now is deciding if that is the best, and who would do it and the resultant reconstructive work.
But I'm not riding point on this one - so I just get to kibbitz.
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Date: 2004-09-14 08:39 am (UTC)torture device in my living roomcouch and I'll take you surfing. The water is going to get cold pretty soon though so you ought to do it before it get really cold.no subject
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