Survival Of Patients With Lymph Node Metastasis Above The Bifurcation Of The Common Iliac Vessels Treated With Surgery Only

UroToday.com- In this article published in the October issue of the Journal of Urology, Steven and Poulsen report the 5-year cancer specific and overall survival on 336 consecutive patients with invasive bladder cancer who underwent a radical cystectomy and extended lymph node dissection that included the common iliac and peri-aortic lymph nodes up to the inferior mesenteric artery. None of the patients received neo adjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Cancer on November 11th, 2007