I just want to add something that confuses many people and scares the daylights out of them. Sometimes path reports will say something like “no muscle present” and is often interpreted as muscle invasive. What it really means is that the surgeon did not get a tissue sample with muscle in it. He or she didn;t get into the muscle of the bladder, which is important. So it means there is no muscle tissue to check. It may say “muscle present) which is even scarier to many people and they think it means the cancer is in the muscle. Not true, it means that the tissue sample they received has muscle cell in it which is a good thing. But if a sample has no muscle tissue and the report indicates no cancer that’s pretty good news since it likely that ere are no cancer cell to be found. Hope this helps a bit.
kiowa
