How soon should surgery be done, once a bladder cancer tumor has been diagnosed?

Safely done: If curative surgery can be done safely - sooner is better. You need to know about the procedure, risk and benefit, complication etc.If you have other medical problems, you also need to make sure you are clear to have surgery as it is quite a major surgery. Sometimes, chemo has to be given first before the surgery. If surgery can't be done- combination chemo-radiation will be the treatment. D/w md.

See below.: As soon as reasonably possible given your schedule, health and the surgeon's schedule. There is no rush, but you would certainly not want to wait for months. Best to optimize your medical condition before proceeding.

Bladder cancer: May be "superficial" and warrant removal via cystoscope, surveillance, and bcg therapy. Once invading bladder muscle, chemotherapy before surgery is often used even without evidence of nodes or metastasis. There are advocates of bladder preservation without surgery, using chemo and xrt, and some cannot have surgery due to obesity or other co-morbidities.