He’s had pretty serious medical issues over the last year or so. It sounds unlikely that he’ll be the coach at CU this year.
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To me, this is the major college football news story thie summer. I hope it is nothing serious and Sanders is able to coach football. It would be a shock to college football if Deion Sanders is not able to coach this year.
Get well Coach Prime.
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He’s been traveling to training camps and Dallas and was willing to do the cowboys hc job
but I hope this ain’t too serious to where he shuts it down cause his sons are gone
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He’s done…now is the time to announce it so they have a month + to prepare with a new coach.
I was wondering why his recruiting was lagging.
That CU game, at home, should now be viewed as a sure W
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He’s pulling an Urban Meyer.
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Glad he’s staying. Good for the conference
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DBAD.
Glad he beat cancer and is staying at Colorado.
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You all could not be further wrong haha. Just watched it live
Complete removal to avoid future risk of micrometastasis
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Very good news. Coach Prime needs to stay on top of his monitoring visits for early detection and treatment.
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Glad to be wrong here.
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I’m very happy for him and his family. Any time you hear the “C” word from your doctor is a very scary time for you and your family.
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Questions for any doctors here (@ultra or others I don’t know about):
How is that detected? Do you get screened for that? Or do you start to have symptoms and then test for it?
Does he wear a bag now for urine collection?
Clusters of differentiation, sorry not a doctor, yet
Aka cell surface markers/antigen, immune cell count, general feeling of malaise, etc or god for bid a surface level tumor in his muscle tissue (which was the concern per his physcian)
Gonna go on a limb its Muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) marker, but pulling that out of a very brief secondary lit read
Interesting P16, fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 are listed. These up-regulate tryosine kinase pathways = uncontrolled cell division
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Yes, but they developed him new bladder tissue from his intestines
(see UPDATE at bottom this post)
To be proactive, I’d find a way, an excuse, to get your urologist to do an ultrasound on your bladder & prostate.
In my case, a routine physical showed some blood in my urine and my PSA had jumped a bit, so I visited my urologist and he saw a mass in my bladder during an ultrasound. Gotta say it felt pretty weird to be sat down and told “You have Bladder Cancer” out of the blue — I hadn’t noticed any symptoms. It was early last July, the day after my 70th b’day — Happy F’n Birthday, man!
I had a couple of tumors removed last August. Clear for now but yes, bladder cancer recurs, so I’m doing BCG immunotherapy for 2-3 years and we hope that keeps it away. See 1st link below for more on BCG.
I’m lucky we found it early — it was Non-invasive, Nothing in lymph nodes, No metastasis elsewhere. Didn’t need bladder removed — that stuff is a big deal.
A tough part of all this was the weeks of Waiting, Waiting. My Urologic Oncologist is busy so it took 2+ weeks just to get in to see him for an initial consult on July 18th. Tumor removal surgery wasn’t until Aug. 20th. Then the post-op visit where I was told cancer was non-invasive and we could keep bladder and do BCG was early September. That is a l-o-n-g time to think about things…
Bladder removal, reconstruction & urinary diversion—
UPDATE: I like the doctor’s advice from @ultra, below, so I’ve changed my layman’s recommendation to: Get regular checkups of blood & urine — my primary care doc does it every 6 months. If something shows up, then get some bladder & prostate imaging done by a urologist. In my case, blood in urine & elevated PSA in May & June led to an ultrasound in July that found two masses in my bladder.
My urologist is John Boon at Methodist Sugar Land.
My urologic oncologist is Raj Satkunasivam at Methodist Med Center
I recommend both
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He does not have a bladder anymore… props to him for committing to complete removal
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I had a bunch of blood in my urine over a weekend in May 2009. Primary care physician on a Monday told me I had to see my Urologist sooner than later. Made the appointment for that Wednesday. I did not know what a cystoscopy was, and I have to admit it was very traumatic. He had the scope in me for about 30 seconds and said carcinoma in situ. Sounds like a bad word doc and he said you have bladder cancer. He did not mess around and had the surgery to remove the tumor the following Monday. Fortunately it was just past TA and moving towards T1. We did the BCG treatment for 16 weeks. Now I am a frequent flyer with my Urologist for a cystoscopy every nine months. So far, no recurrence after sixteen years.
My advice - if you ever see blood in your urine go see your Urologist as soon as possible.
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