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May 24

Get Involved — Bladder Cancer Canada

Your Journey Remember those words your first heard, “bladder cancer”. Your world was on hold, your mind was idle, your heart raced, and your focus was gone for moments. Yet, you pulled through that initial diagnosis — determined your course of action, and here you are today reading this blog post along…

Bladder Cancer

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Get Involved — Bladder Cancer Canada
Get Involved — Bladder Cancer Canada
Bladder Cancer

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May 17

Bladder Cancer Post Pandemic

New Normal — Same Cancer Since March of 2020 our patient community, like so many other patients facing their challenging times, has been reminded to continue to pursue their appointments with doctors and appropriate follow up — about their own individual circumstances. The pandemic may have caused us a new context of normal but we…

Bladder Cancer

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Bladder Cancer Post Pandemic
Bladder Cancer Post Pandemic
Bladder Cancer

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May 15

BCG Treatments — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month

Standard Care Treatment for Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer I was diagnosed with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, and after my TURBT and the pathology report, it was classifed as a Ta high grade disease. …

Bladder Cancer

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BCG Treatments — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
BCG Treatments — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
Bladder Cancer

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May 10

Post Cystoscopy — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month

Meeting the urologist My first meeting with the urologist was February 5th, my cystoscopy took place on February 27th. Debrief after Cystoscopy After the cystoscopy, you will get dressed and wait for the de-brief with your urologist (in my experience). That first cystoscopy is truly the discovery examination. What’s going on in there? Is there anything…

Bladder Cancer

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Post Cystoscopy — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
Post Cystoscopy — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
Bladder Cancer

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May 7

Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumour — Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumour-Bladder Cancer Awareness Month

The TURBT. The transurethral resection of a bladder tumour. This was the procedure that I underwent at Sunnybrook Health Sciences with Dr. Kodama. I arrived prior to 6am in the morning to check-in, after having completed pre-surgical screening a few weeks prior. I was prepped and then held in a…

Bladder Cancer

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Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumour — Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumour-Bladder…
Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumour — Transurethral Resection of a Bladder Tumour-Bladder…
Bladder Cancer

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May 6

Patient Support — Bladder Cancer Canada

Up to this point… You had a symptom, you sought advice, you underwent tests, you had a follow-up consult, a referral to a urologist, a further examination, a cystoscopy, further blood and urine tests, maybe another imaging scan, a TURBT to remove tumours from the bladder, a follow-up pathology report followed by BCG treatments. …

Bladder Cancer

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Patient Support — Bladder Cancer Canada
Patient Support — Bladder Cancer Canada
Bladder Cancer

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May 4

Between Diagnosis and Surgery — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month

My Reflection I remind folks reading this series of blog posts related to my own non-muscle invasive bladder cancer journey that these are reflections related to my own personal journey in 2014 and forward. Each individual may have a slightly different experience or a drastically different experience in their bladder cancer journey…

Bladder Cancer

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Between Diagnosis and Surgery — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
Between Diagnosis and Surgery — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
Bladder Cancer

4 min read


May 3

Bladder Cancer Staging/Grading — Bladder Cancer Awareness Month

Images and Test Results As patients of bladder cancer we will have experienced that first session with our general practitioner, where they have most likely had you undertake some sort of imaging to determine what might be going on internally. …

Bladder Cancer

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Bladder Cancer

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May 1

Bladder Cancer — Be Aware-Catch it Early

This month of May, like every month of May we at Bladder Cancer Canada work hard to raise awareness about this disease. I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in early 2014 with surgery to remove two tumours via a TURBT, followed by treatments with BCG. Luckily for me, I got…

Bladder Cancer

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Bladder Cancer — Be Aware-Catch it Early
Bladder Cancer — Be Aware-Catch it Early
Bladder Cancer

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Mar 1

Kindness Exemplified

With my birthday approaching March 3rd, I was so delighted and moved to have received an early card from my dear friend — artist and philanthropist Rita Winkler. From her Book’s site: “Rita Winkler, a young woman living with Down syndrome, shows us the world as she sees it through…

Rita Winkler

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Kindness Exemplified
Kindness Exemplified
Rita Winkler

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