Bladder Cancer

Early cystectomy, orthotopic diversion effective in high-grade T1 bladder cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 26th, 2004

According to U.S. researchers, early cystectomy and orthotopic diversion increases life expectancy significantly in high-grade T1 bladder cancer tumors."High-grade bladder cancer involving the lamina propria is considered superficial disease. This spectrum is generally treated with TUR plus intravesical therapy.

"However, significant understaging jeopardizes long-term survival and improvements and radical surgery represents a provocative alternative," reported F.J. Bianco and colleagues.

The researchers reported, "We evaluated disease-free and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in our cohort of patients with high-grade T1 tumors. A total of 318 patients...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-10-26)

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