Trends of radical cystectomy and comparisons of surgical outcomes among surgical approaches focusing on robot-assisted radical cystectomy: A Japanese nationwide database study.

For the past decade, the number of minimally invasive radical cystectomies has steadily increased without compromised surgical outcomes, except for anesthesia time. Robot-assisted radical cystectomies in particular rapidly became widespread in Japan after government approval in 2018 and became a standard surgery within the first 3 years.