Robot-assisted Versus Open Radical Cystectomy in Patients Receiving Perioperative Chemotherapy for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: The Oncologist's Perspective from a Multicentre Study

Andrea Necchi, Gregory R. Pond, Marc C. Smaldone, Sumanta K. Pal, Kevin Chan, Yu Ning Wong, Rosalia Viterbo, Guru Sonpavde, Lauren C. Harshman, Simon Crabb, Ajjai Alva, Simon Chowdhury, Ugo De Giorgi, Sandy Srinivas, Neeraj Agarwal, Aristotelis Bamias, Jack Baniel, Ali Reza Golshayan, Sylvain Ladoire, Cora N. SternbergLinda Cerbone, Evan Y. Yu, Joaquim Bellmunt, Ulka Vaishampayan, Gunter Niegisch, Syed Hussain, Daniel W. Bowles, Rafael Morales-Barrera, Matthew I. Milowsky, Christine Theodore, Dominik R. Berthold, Srikala S. Sridhar, Thomas Powles, Jonathan E. Rosenberg, Matthew D. Galsky

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Abstract

In contemporary cohorts of patients who have received perioperative chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, no substantial differences were found between robot-assited radical cystectomy (RARC) and open radical cystectomy, and the number of lymph nodes removed was higher with RARC.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)937-945
Number of pages9
JournalEuropean Urology Focus
Volume4
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Cystectomy
  • Muscle-invasive disease
  • Perioperative chemotherapy
  • Robot-assisted surgery
  • Urothelial carcinoma

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