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February 24, 2013 at 12:04 am #7727
Greg
ParticipantFebruary 26, 2013 at 1:46 pm #15054lyndadbutler@hotmail.com
ParticipantI quit 15 years before I was diagnosed. Thought I was safe. They told me that unfortunately with bladder cancer your risk does not lower as fast as other cancers .
February 26, 2013 at 5:55 pm #15055Susan
ParticipantFrom the article:
He also noted that while the risk of bladder cancer remains elevated for former smokers, it does go down the longer someone stays off cigarettes.Interesting. This thread made me think about my story. I quit smoking in 1997. Ten years later – 2007 – I was diagnosed with low-grade, non-invasive bladder cancer. So .. I guess it takes a long time for the risk to decrease for us former tobacco addicts. That was the beginning of increasingly serious tumours in my bladder for me.
My bladder is gone as of 2011, so I don’t worry about bladder tumours anymore, and the prognosis is good for a cure for me – meaning that the bladder cancer is unlikely to show up anywhere else in my body.
What a cautionary tale for smokers, though. I think we all just worried about our lungs, not our bladders.February 27, 2013 at 5:49 pm #15056Bud
ParticipantCan’t agree with you more on this Greg.
I smoked from 1954 until Feb 1st. 1993.
In the summer of 2011 I was diagonosed with BC.
I used to work with a Chemical Engineer that left and went to work with one of the big cigerette manufacturers in Canada. I met him in a restaurant a few years later and asked him if the chemicals being used in tobacco had changed at all over the years. His reply was “You don’t want to even know.”
I can’t say anymore on this except “If you or your friends or loved ones smoke, encourage them to quit!”November 14, 2013 at 7:25 pm #16524SueG
Participant[strong]Cancer cures smoking, eventually.[/strong]
November 20, 2013 at 3:45 pm #16533Kit
ParticipantWhat worries me is the trend of using electronic cigarettes as there is currently no law restricting its use in public areas like that for traditional cigarettes. Second hand smoking could be equally damaging!!
November 20, 2013 at 3:54 pm #16534KIOWA
ParticipantNever smoked ever. Not ever. But as a kid I was exposed to lots of second hand and third hand smoke. Sue makes a good point.
Ki
November 22, 2013 at 3:01 am #16545SueG
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November 23, 2013 at 2:00 am #16550marysue
ParticipantI’ve never been a smoker but I grew up with 2 parents that were heavy smokers and later my 2 brothers joined them. I had 4 people smoking up a storm in a 900 sq ft house. Most of my friends parents smoked too so I’d go from one smoky house to another. I was also exposed to a lot of pesticides and herbicides growing up as Iived in a fruit growing area. I compounded that by dying my hair for many years so I think I was a ticking time bomb for bladder cancer.
November 26, 2013 at 5:08 pm #16576auntybevy
ParticipantWhen I was diagnosed, I had not had a cigarette for over thirty years. In my youth, I was a fairly heavy smoker. I was shocked to learn that smoking could have been the cause of my cancer …. thirty years later.
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