CancerCompass message board discussion started by emotions1 on 7/14/2007 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,14341,0.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Hi everyone, thanks for all of the wonderful information that you guys have posted. My little girl, "Diamond" is 11 years old, we've just found out this week that she might have tcc, she has a large tumor in her bladder. The tumor is not on her uretha or any major parts of her bladder. The doctor thinks we should do surgery as soon as possible. We don't want to do surgery because she is really healthy at this time. She's doing all of the things that she has always done. We took her to the vets office because of the blood in the urine, otherwise it would have gone undetected. Can you guys give me some insight on how quick after the surgery does an animal recover.Also, my vet told me that medciation treatment would not work on Diamond now because of the tumor is already too big, and she may live only few months without any surgery. When are thinking about her quality of life, we are not able to decide whether we should do surgery or not. Her tumor is already too big and  if this surgery cause more problem on her and she will suffer from it.We have read most of the message here and we noticed the people who did have surgery are only the dogs in the ealy stage detection. Please Please give us your advice, we have schedule her surgery next Tuesday morning  Thanks for listening and your advice. emotions1 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT