More Extensive Lymph Node Dissection Beneficial in NMIBC
Investigators proposed that lymph node dissection should be included as part of radical cystectomy for patients with NMIBC.
Investigators proposed that lymph node dissection should be included as part of radical cystectomy for patients with NMIBC.
There is a need for an easy and objective tool to assess malnutrition prior to urologic surgery.
Age, lymphovascular invasion, and histology predicted pathologic upstaging among patients with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer, a study found.
Study findings support radical cystectomy as the gold standard therapy for high-risk bladder cancer.
Progression on bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) likely represents a biologically aggressive disease state as well as diagnostic delay, according to investigators.
Investigators report increased risks for adverse pathology and 90-day readmission.
In addition to similar rates of overall survival, patients undergoing partial and radical cystectomy had comparable rates of upstaging to pT3-4 disease.
Older age independently predicted significant 48% lower odds of the gold standard treatment of NAC and radical cystectomy.
Researchers in The Netherlands compared the surgical approaches in patients with muscle-invasive or high-risk nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Nivolumab treatment for patients who have undergone radical surgery for high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma improves their disease-free survival compared with placebo, a study shows.