Bladder cancer survivor: Why I fly 3,200 miles for an immunotherapy clinical trial
Looking back, I wish I¡¯d asked more questions when I was first diagnosed with bladder cancer in July 2010.
I have plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma, a rare and very aggressive type of bladder cancer that spreads through the blood. But because my local doctors didn¡¯t know that at the time, it led to not just one, but four separate recurrences ¡ª despite the tumor being entirely within my bladder and having my bladder surgically removed...
