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How do you manage pelvic pain and hematuria due to recurrent high grade transitional cell bladder cancer who had received 70 Gy to bladder and is not a chemotherapy or surgical candidate?

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Radiation Oncology · University of California Los Angeles
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It depends whether these symptoms are caused by radiation, recurrence, or both. One might not be able to distinguish.

For hematuria I think a cystoscopy and focal fulguration if that is available to the patient, or else consider hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which may also improve pain (I don’t think h...

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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If significant time period from first treatment then I have done 1.2 BID to 30s Gy excluding small bowel and rectum

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