Selective tetramodal bladder-preservation therapy, incorporating induction chemoradiotherapy and consolidative partial cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: oncological and functional outcomes of 107 patients.
Toshiki KijimaHajime TanakaFumitaka KogaHitoshi MasudaSoichiro YoshidaMinato YokoyamaJunichiro IshiokaYoh MatsuokaKazutaka SaitoKazunori KiharaYasuhisa FujiiPublished in: BJU international (2019)
Selective tetramodal bladder-preservation therapy, incorporating consolidative PC with PLND, yielded favourable oncological and functional outcomes in patients with MIBC. Consolidative PC may have contributed to the low rate of MIBC recurrence in patients treated according to this protocol.
Keyphrases
- rectal cancer
- robot assisted
- locally advanced
- radical prostatectomy
- muscle invasive bladder cancer
- spinal cord injury
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- prostate cancer
- prognostic factors
- lymph node
- peritoneal dialysis
- stem cells
- squamous cell carcinoma
- minimally invasive
- mesenchymal stem cells