'Successful' chemo- and radiotherapy prior to radical cystectomy does not necessarily correlate with clinical course in small cell carcinoma of the bladder

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 286-288

  Sejima, Takehiro ^a   Miyagawa, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Neoadjuvant therapy; Radical cystectomy; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; BLADDER TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; CISPLATIN; CYSTECTOMY; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 21244462666     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000083567     Document Type: Article

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