Avoiding cystectomy for high-grade bladder cancer
Dr Sima Porten from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), was in Melbourne this week for the ANZUP Annual Scientific Meeting (more from that in an upcoming episode), so she popped into the GU Cast studio to chat with Renu and Declan. Renu of course spent a year with Sima and colleagues doing Fellowship training in GU Oncology so she was very happy to have her good friend and mentor in town.
Sima is a very highly regarded expert in bladder cancer and delivered some great talks on this topic to the ANZUP ASM this week. We chat with her about strategies to help patients avoid cystectomy (bladder removal) despite refractory high-grade bladder cancer. We also chat about avoiding cystectomy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer, and her thoughts on open vs robotic surgery from her perspective as a very high-volume bladder cancer surgeon.
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Such a beautiful discussion, awesome having GU cast back in action. Please come back Sima
Thank you - I’ve recently been diagnosed with muscle invasive cancer and so have many questions regarding treatment options.
Thank you so much for this presentation. Having recently undergone a TURBT procedure and subsequent consultation with my urologist, I am hopeful that bladder preservation is possible after the information provided herein. Now waiting for my consultation with the oncologist...
I have just recently been told that I have a "large tumor" in my bladder and I am very nervous. Now I am all over the internet learning about bladder cancer and treatment. I don't know if I have cancer and it has been over two months since I found out about the tumor. I don't understand why, in Oklahoma where I am, it takes so very long to move on a tumor discovery. I have been told that in Oklahoma the general attitude of doctors when a tumor or even diagnosed cancer has been diagnosed, is hurry up and wait. I am very scared by this attitude, is anyone else going through an apathetic medical industry? Yes, I said industry on purpose.