Preoperative chemotherapy for prostatic stromal invasive urothelial bladder cancer: comparison of oncological outcomes of male patients with cT4a disease undergoing radical cystectomy with or without preoperative chemotherapy.
CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative chemotherapy is associated with cT4a bladder cancer down-staging, decreased lymphovascular invasion and decreased positive nodal disease. Preoperative chemotherapy provides survival benefit to those who achieved pathological response.
PMID: 31081431 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Scand J Urol Source Type: research
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