How do you manage patients with locoregional lymph node recurrence after radical cystectomy for muscle invasive bladder cancer?
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Medical Oncology · Stanford University Medical Center
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Recurrent bladder cancer is typically a systemic disease. I would start with cisplatin based chemotherapy first and then add consolidative radiotherapy. There is a small body of literature on surgical consolidation as well. In our single instiution experience patients did very well following radiotherapy, especially those with nodal disease
Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2017 Dec;15(6):685-688. doi: 10.1016/j.clgc.2017.04.007. Epub 2017 Apr 12.
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