Is there a role for radiation in the treatment of superficial, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers • Bladder Cancer

Specifically, for high grade T1 bladder cancer, is there evidence that definitive radiation yields similar control rates compared to cystectomy?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice

The data from Germany looks good for high grade non muscle invasive disease with chemo RT. Based on this, RTOG also has a protocol for this subset. There is no randomised comparison to surgery, but compared to the published surgical data, it looks comparable: http://jco.ascopubs.org/conte...

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