Natural history and health care burden of non-curative treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer

CONCLUSIONS: Untreated muscle-invasive bladder cancer is associated with a limited lifespan and a high disease burden for the patient and health system. These data should be taken into consideration and portrayed to the patient when curative intent treatment is chosen to be avoided.PMID:38641474 | DOI:10.1016/j.urolonc.2024.03.009

Source: Urologic Oncology - April 19, 2024 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Haim Herzberg Yossi Ventura Karin Lifshitz Ziv Savin Shay Golan Jack Baniel Ofer Yossepowitch Roy Mano Source Type: research