You sure it can be "diagnosed" via urine samples? Diagnosis of tissue cancers usually require a biopsy.

If it's like other cancer markers, they're not diagnostic in the true sense. Markers tend to be useful for people who have been diagnosed, as then they are also useful for telling the treating doctors if the treatments are working or not. But almost all markers can have benign reasons behind them or other non cancer related reasons. Bowel cancer has markers as does ovarian etc cancers. But not everyone with those raised markers are found to have cancers after more testing.

I mean, if you had previously been diagnosed with the cancer you are worried about, then yeah, those markers would be significant.

It's why having access to your medical records isn't really a good idea for some people. A lot of the stuff in them contain medical jargon, which can sometimes mean the little we do understand can come over as being more pressing than it actually is.

Because you have whatever you have in your urine, they want to rule that out, so it's went to the top of the list. Not too dissimilar to how many woman get pushed onto the 2 week breast cancer pathway, but the vast majority come away learning they have something benign. But cancer had to be ruled out.

From what I've read, and yes, hubby and mum have both told me to stop reading now... but I like to be knowledgable about these things, the type of cancer coded on my medical records is initially diagnosed through urine cytology, and then graded through imaging and biopsies. 
 

I also have a friend who is a GP in a different part of the country. I have shown her the coding on my medical record and she has told me that yes, it's been coded as a diagnosis. However, she feels it could be a slightly premature diagnosis and would definitely NOT have recorded and coded it without further investigation, although it's possible to diagnose from the urine tests I've had already. i spoke to her hoping she'd tell me it was a query rather than a diagnosis (although it seemed odd to me to only query that one thing, when like you say, it could be a myriad of other, potentially less scary things!).
 

I'm still holding on to the hope that it is a mistake but only by a thin thread. I've also had some weird emails from the nhs/drs surgery regarding things like Covid treatments that I am now apparently entitled to should I test positive for Covid since my initial appointment on feb 28th, which I find suspicious and worrying.