Would you treat a muscle invasive urethral recurrence of bladder cancer with definitive chemoradiation?
For a patient with a history of non-muscle invasive disease in the bladder, presenting with a prostatic urethra only recurrence, do you approach this as a bladder cancer or as a new primary urethral cancer? What if the patient cannot tolerate chemotherapy?
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Radiation Oncology · Harvard Medical School
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Assuming that the urethral tumor is invasive of the prostatic stroma, there are multiple reasonable answers depending upon the patient's age and health status. Remember that stromal invasion is a bad sign and these patients are rarely cured.
If the patient is young, but reluctant to consider cystopr...
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