A Comprehensive Approach to Clinical Staging of Bladder Cancer.

Przemyslaw AdamczykPaweł PobłockiMateusz KadlubowskiAdam OstrowskiAndrzej WrobelWitold MikołajczakJan AdamowiczTomasz DrewaKajetan Juszczak

Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)

Clinical staging of bladder cancer is poorly executed, with one third of patients under-staged and one third over-staged. To improve accuracy, we recommend a multimodal approach, combining histopathological evaluation with results of imaging studies.

Keyphrases

lymph node
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
pet ct
high resolution
prognostic factors
patient reported outcomes
photodynamic therapy
fluorescence imaging
muscle invasive bladder cancer