A delay in radical cystectomy of >3 months is not associated with a worse clinical outcome

BJU International

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1015-1020

  Nielsen, Matthew E ^a   Palapattu, Ganesh S ^a   Karakiewicz, Pierre I ^b   Lotan, Yair ^c   Bastian, Patrick J ^a   Lerner, Seth P ^d   Sagalowsky, Arthur I ^c   Schoenberg, Mark P ^a   Shariat, Shahrokh F ^c,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Cystectomy; Recurrence; Stage; Survival; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; THERAPY DELAY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35148861776     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2007.07132.x     Document Type: Article

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