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Bladder Cancer

Survival rates jump significantly with presurgery chemotherapy

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 16th, 2003

Treating locally advanced bladder cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy - chemotherapy before surgery - can offer longer life to patients compared to the standard treatment of surgery alone, according to a new study.

In the 11-year study of 307 patients, conducted by the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and led by an investigator at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, researchers found that patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy lived an average of 31 months longer, and that those treated with surgery alone had a 66% greater chance of dying from bladder cancer than patients who had the combination therapy. The findings were published in the New...

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