Trimodalities for bladder cancer in elderly: Transurethral resection, hypofractionated radiotherapy and gemcitabine.

CONCLUSION: Hypofractionated radiotherapy and gemcitabine as a radiosensitizer in elderly as organ preservation for transitional cell carcinoma bladder cancer have acceptable toxicity profile with good response rate and disease-free survival, keeping salvage cystectomy for persistence or recurrence of invasive cancer. PMID: 29678595 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29678595?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cancer Radiotherapie - April 17, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Mohamed HAH, Salem MA, Elnaggar MS, Gabr A, Abdelrheem AM Tags: Cancer Radiother Source Type: research