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Bladder Cancer
New bladder cancer study findings have been reported from Johns Hopkins University
April 1st, 2008
"The finding of bladder cancer invading the detrusor muscle on transurethral resection (TUR) is one of the clearest indications for radical cystectomy. To the extent that detrusor invasion is, in practical effect, a binary variable, the variety of outcomes after radical cystectomy in these patients belies the simplicity of this approach," scientists in the United States report. "In this context, we assessed bladder cancer recurrence-free survival among patients noted to have muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma (transitional cell cancer [TCC]) on staging TUR subsequently found to have non-muscle-invasive TCC at radical cystectomy (downstaged). The records of 248...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-04-01)
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