Mother - possible bladder cancer

Hi everyone 

lm currently on holiday and my mum just called me to say she had a tumour removed from her bladder via cystoscope. Unfortunately she never pre-warns me of any health scares and then I get completely shocked and panicked when I do eventually find out something has happened.

She said that the surgeon didn't say whether the tumour was cancer or not nor how big etc.

I don't know what I'm asking from you here other than someone to talk about it with. I just want her to be alright but google has been scaring me (why did I look).

 

  • Welcome to Cancer Chat, Wirrallad

    I'm sorry to hear that your mum had a tumour that needed removal and that the news was delivered to you the way they were.

    It's easy to understand why you're worried but maybe by the time your mum contacted you, she might not have had all the information on whether the tumour was something to worry about.

    Hopefully, others who have been in a similar situation will come by with better advice but until they do try to stop looking up health-related matters on Google, it rarely helps and it usually ends up stressing us more.

    Once you know more, if you find a moment, please come back and update us, we're keeping our fingers crossed everything will go well with your mum.

    Best wishes,

    Renata, Cancer Chat Moderator

     

     

     

  • Thanks for your message Renata and sorry for the delay in responding. It turned out that my mothers tumour was cancer, however it was stage 0 grade 1 which could be removed with no treatment needed. Her three month check up showed no further growths so very good news :). Hopefully she will keep me in the loop more in future.