Do you offer bladder-sparing approaches as an alternative to cystectomy for surgery-eligible patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers • Medical Oncology • Urologic Oncology

Should cystectomy remain standard of care?

(Recently debated in JAMA Oncology:

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2520055

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2520054)

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

We have a bladder cancer multispecialty clinic at SCCA/UWMC in which we also see patients with localized MIBC and we balance carefully risks vs benefits, rationale, data, details & logistics of options. Overall, cisplatin-based chemotherapy (for fit patients) ->radical cystectomy with PLND, O...

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Medical Oncologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center
Do you offer neobladder with cystectomy??

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Good question for our colleagues in Urologic Oncol...

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