Effectiveness of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder with Lymph Node Involvement and/or Lymphovascular Invasion Treated by Radical Cystectomy

Urology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-262

  Park, Jinsung ^a   Park, Sungchan ^a   Song, Cheryn ^a   Doo, Chinkyung ^a   Cho, Yong Mee ^a   Ahn, Hanjong ^a   Kim, Choung Soo ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; METHOTREXATE; VINBLASTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34548379580     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.03.054     Document Type: Article

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