The optimising of neoadjuvant chemoradition methods of therapy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer

In this original paper presented main results of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation of the muscle invasive bladder cancer. Authors analyzed results of preoperative therapy and radical cystectomy in depending of prognostic factors, such as age, sex, grade of histological differentiation, tumor size, stage of disease, and lymph nodes status. There were showed that neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy in selected group of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer can affect overall survival and life expectancy, compared with only surgery.

bladder cancer, neoadjuvant therapy, surgery, prognostic factors