Contemporary use trends and survival outcomes in patients undergoing radical cystectomy or bladder-preservation therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
David B CahnElizabeth A HandorfEric M GhiraldiBenjamin T RistauDaniel M GeynismanThomas M ChurillaEric M HorwitzMark L SobczakDavid Y T ChenRosalia ViterboRichard E GreenbergAlexander KutikovRobert G UzzoMarc C SmaldonePublished in: Cancer (2017)
In the National Cancer Data Base, receipt of BPT was associated with decreased OS compared with RC in patients with stage II to III urothelial carcinoma. Increasingly stringent definitions of BPT and more rigorous statistical methods adjusting for selection biases attenuated observed survival differences. Cancer 2017;123:4337-45. © 2017 American Cancer Society.