Hello everyone... My son had his cancer surgery on October 2nd, which lasted 10 hours, to give him a chance at a longer life. The cancer was malignant and the surgeons had to remove his bladder and colon, as well as some muscle tissue and scrape some cancer off his pelvic bone. They pretty much removed everything in his pelvic region. There was still some cancer left in his lymph nodes that the docs couldn't get to, so they inserted surgical staples in that area to attract chemo and radiation at a later date.