Impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on survival and recurrence patterns after robot-assisted radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Results from the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium.
Dharmesh GopalakrishnanAhmed S ElsayedAhmed A HusseinZhe JingQiang LiAndrew A WagnerAhmed AboumohamedMorgan RoupretDerya BalbayCarl WijburgMichael StockleProkar DasguptaMuhammad Shamim KhanPeter WiklundAbolfazl HosseiniJames PeabodyKatsumi ShigemuraDonald TrumpKhurshid A GuruGurkamal ChattaPublished in: International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association (2021)
In this analysis from a large international database, patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy before robot-assisted radical cystectomy had higher rates of survival, pathological downstaging, and margin-negative resections. They also experienced fewer distant recurrences.