Some people might need chemotherapy after TURBT. Your provider might recommend intravesical chemotherapy – medicine delivered directly to your bladder through a catheter – after TURBT if the tumor has not spread outside of your bladder. They might give you the first dose during the TURBT procedure by applying chemotherapy to the inside of your bladder after removing the tumor. Additional treatments would then start in the weeks following TURBT.
If cancer has spread (metastasized), you might have chemotherapy through an IV, so it can treat your entire body.