Hi all

I’m new here and I’m probably not the first person to wish I wasn’t posting. 

I had a flexible cyto. yesterday after suffering for 2 years, having previous Cysto and mRI with contrast showing nothing. Symptoms worsened last 6 months often in agony to pass urine - working diagnosis was benign prostatits but now it seems much more concerning. 

I saw the scan images - lots of yellow sandy patches on bladder wall which doc asked if I’d been to Africa which I haven’t. Seems a parasite can cause these symptoms which leads to SCC and I fear this isn’t the parasite situation but a SCC anyway. 

Sorry a bit long winded but I wanted to find out what a doc’s obligations are. He did not mention possible cancer at all during the consultation. He mentioned this obscure disease but as I haven’t been to Africa at all, didn’t say it could be SCC. He just said need to have these patches biopsies under GA and he would try and fit me in for January. 

Having got home and read cyto report I now realise he thinks it could be bladder cancer. If it is SCC, then things look bleak and I’m struggling to process this all and why he didn’t even mention a possible cancer to me?

My wife and I were not going to see my parents over Xmas (as we would normally do due to Covid to minimise any risk) but I would possibly rethink that if I may not see another one. (Sorry if im looking at worst outcome here but it reflects the info I’ve read).

What I can’t get my head around is the fact that the doc never mentioned possible cancer to my face but gave me a report saying ? Ca B. Ca is the abbreviation for cancer and B is bladder. 

If