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Right after you saw blood in your urine, you likely have met your GP and the GP could have referred you to a Urologist. You are in the right step if you have been referred to a doctor who is listed as one of doctors who had participated in preparing the whitepaper “Recommendations for the improvement of bladder cancer quality of care in Canada: A consensus document reviewed and endorsed by Bladder Cancer Canada (BCC), Canadian Urologic Oncology Group (CUOG), and Canadian Urological Association (CUA), December 2015”. Then, you know that you are with the right doctor who will likely to give you the right treatment according to the more recent guidelines.
The reality is that we have over 8,000 cases of new BC patients every year and we have over 80,000 BC survivors. It is impossible to assign near 100,000 BC patients to the dozen of the doctors listed in the whitepaper. I understand that there are less than 800 Urologists in Canada. So, I have to assume that majority of possible new BC patients are referred initially to the Urologist in the community where the patients live. So, how can we make sure that we are seeing the right doctor and getting the right treatment?
Joey
Excellent advice, Joey. I did,t know that there were so few urologists in Canada. The Whitepaper is a good read.
“Recommendations for the improvement of bladder cancer quality of care in Canada: A consensus document reviewed and endorsed by Bladder Cancer Canada (BCC), Canadian Urologic Oncology Group (CUOG), and Canadian Urological Association (CUA), December 2015.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26977213
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