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Spring Survey Results 2012

Introduction

Program: Advances in the Treatment of Bladder Cancer

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction LISTEN
  2. Tom's Story LISTEN
  3. Symptoms LISTEN
  4. Smoking as a Risk Factor LISTEN
  5. Genetics LISTEN
  6. Surgical Approaches to Treatment LISTEN
  7. Multidisciplinary Approach LISTEN
  8. Follow-Up After Surgery LISTEN
  9. Treatments LISTEN
  10. Listener Questions LISTEN
  11. The Importance of Being Proactive LISTEN
  12. M. D. Anderson SPORE (Specialized Program Of Research Excellence) LISTEN
  13. Dealing with Recurrence LISTEN

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Andrew Schorr:

Hello and thank you for joining us once again for another edition of Patient Power sponsored by M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. I'm Andrew Schorr. So we are going to talk about bladder cancer today.

You may well know someone who is diagnosed with it or you yourself. It is fifth on the list of the most common cancers in the United States, almost 60,000 new cases each year. Unfortunately 12,000 people, mostly men, will die from the disease, but if it can be found early it's very treatable. And as a matter of fact, the five year cancer specific survival rate is approaching 95 percent.

Well, as you can imagine M. D. Anderson sees people come from around the country and around the world with bladder cancer. One such person came from, used to be a Texan, but for many years was living in Canada, and that's Tom Touzel. He is 70 years old now. Well, back in March of 2004 he was on a trip, and he was having blood in his urine, and it was not stopping. He was very far away, in Asia I believe, and he came back, knew he needed treatment, went back to Florida where he had been spending time and living then, and he had also been taking Coumadin having previously had a stroke, you know, a blood thinner, so he thought maybe that was it. Well, as some of you who have had blood in your urine have found out, maybe it could have been something like this, but what it turned out to be was bladder cancer. And he had some surgery for that, didn't really like the quality of care he was getting, wanted to look further, got on the internet, looked for the leading centers, and it brought him to M. D. Anderson.

And, Tom, thank you for joining us first of all from Canada. When you went to M. D. Anderson, you just went, right? You didn't have an appointment. You didn't have a doctor. You just knew you wanted to seek out your care options there. Is that right?

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