Quality of Life after Bladder Cancer: A Prospective Study Comparing Patient-related Outcomes after Radical Surgery or Radical Radiotherapy for Bladder Cancer

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 373-375

  Nikapota, A D ^a   Cresswell, J ^b   Appleyard, S ^a   Catt, S L ^c  

^a Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYSTECTOMY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84960855758     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: 14332981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2015.12.002     Document Type: Editorial

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