Mass on outside of bladder
Hi I am writing for my husband 45/m. In the fall this year he had a follow up CT for kidney cancer. Mass and partial kidney was removed in 2022. No spread, no chemo or radiation. He gets scans every 12 months.
On the CT done in the Fall 2025 the doc saw something suspicious in the bladder. This doc did a cystoscopy in office and said ok, no problem we will do a TURBT. He then retired. My husband had the partner doc do the TURBT in Dec. After surgery this doc said he didn't visualize a mass but just a misshaped bladder wall. He scraped the wall and cells came back non-cancerous.
Follow up CT from this procedure happened in April. Doc found a very obvious mass on the Outside of the bladder.
Googling isn't helping much here because most people have access to the mass from the inside of the bladder.
Doc recommends a needle biopsy from the outside to determine what they are dealing with. Husband has appt with MSK in June.
How was this not seen when inside the bladder? Was it between the bladder inside and the outside in the fall and came through in the meantime?
My assumption is this is cancer because of bladder wall invasion. But he will need a regular surgery and not just TURBT to remove it and this is all very scary.