Aggressive management of elderly patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 346-347

  Weizer, Alon Z ^a   Montie, James E ^a   Lee, Cheryl T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; CISPLATIN;

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELDERLY CARE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; MUSCLE NEOPLASMS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745956041     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0506     Document Type: Review

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