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Factors of prognostic and therapeutic significance in patients with bladder cancer. [X ray]

Journal Article · · Int. J. Radiat. Oncol., Biol. Phys.; (United States)
In a two-decade period, 451 patients with bladder cancer were treated by external megavoltage irradiation and/or radical cystectomy at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Radical cystectomy alone was performed in 137 patients. One-hundred nine patients underwent radical cystectomy for cancer recurrence or persistence +- 1 year after radical irradiation averaging 6000 rad tumor dose in 6 weeks. Planned preoperative pelvic irradiation either 4000 rad in 4 weeks in 119 patients or 2000 rad in 1 week in 86 patients was followed by radical cystectomy after average intervals of 6 weeks and 2 days, respectively. Similarly more favorable 5-year survival results were observed with prior radical or preoperative conventional or shorter regimen irradiation than with cystectomy alone. The main pelvic complications from this treatment are discussed.
Research Organization:
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
OSTI ID:
6460131
Journal Information:
Int. J. Radiat. Oncol., Biol. Phys.; (United States), Journal Name: Int. J. Radiat. Oncol., Biol. Phys.; (United States) Vol. 7:5; ISSN IOBPD
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English