I had stage 3 cancer had 1 op in January 2019, didn't help, went through a course of chemo still didn't work. The only chance I had of survival was removing my bladder - not only my bladder but all the other organs around the bladder a woman has, plus my lymph nodes. That was 25 june 2019, 6 years on still here I do not like my stoma but if I hadn't of had it I wouldn't be here. It's everyone's choice to do what they think is best. I wanted to carry on living although I hate my stoma still here to tell the story!