LIVESTRONG Fertility www.livestrong.org/we-can-help/fertility-services 855-744-7777 Provides reproductive information and support to cancer patients and survivors whose medical treatments have risks associated with infertility. [mskcc.org]

Do Breathing and Coughing Exercises Practice taking deep breaths and coughing before your surgery. You will be given an incentive spirometer to help expand your lungs. For more information, read our resource How to Use Your Incentive Spirometer. [mskcc.org]

A temperature of 101 F (38.3 C) or higher Pain that doesn’t get better with your medication Redness, swelling, or drainage from your incisions that is foul smelling (smells bad) or is pus-like (thick or yellow) Diarrhea or constipation Calf pain Nausea [mskcc.org]

At last, we could flush the surgical area with sterile water. [bmcurol.biomedcentral.com]

But on my third day of outpatient chemotherapy, I woke up confused with visual hallucinations and was admitted to the ER. I didn’t work for the next two-and-a-half years. From that day forward for the next year, I was seldom without a caregiver. [mdanderson.org]

Removing or damaging the nerves is sometimes needed and may cause side effects such as retrograde ejaculation in men. This is a condition where semen is pushed backward into the bladder instead of out of the body. [cancer.ca]

In the original full template bilateral RPLND (Figure 1) that was done without nerve sparing, more than 90% of patients had retrograde ejaculation. [urotoday.com]

This is called retrograde ejaculation and can impact your fertility (ability to have biological children). For more information, read Retrograde Ejaculation. Your surgeon will try to use nerve sparing techniques if possible. [mskcc.org]

The most common symptom of pyelo-carcinoma is gross or microscopic hematuria, observed in 70%–80% of the cases [ 5 ], followed by flank pain and a lumbar mass. UTUCs that invade the muscle wall usually have a very poor prognosis. [bmcurol.biomedcentral.com]