Alcohol use disorder may predispose patients to worse adverse in-hospital outcomes after radical cystectomy and ileal conduit urinary diversion for bladder cancer.

Prophylactic tranexamic acid showed no reduction in blood transfusion rates in open radical cystectomy patients. The trial found no significant differences in secondary outcomes, including estimated ...

PATIENTS AND METHODS: All patients undergoing radical cystectomy with bilateral pelvic iliac lymphadenectomy, with the intent to cure, for transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder between July 1971 ...

Credit: Thinkstock Preoperative potassium levels in patients with bladder cancer could offer a cost-effective and convenient way to improve the accuracy of outcome predictions. Abnormal preoperative ...

In the past decade there has been a rapid expansion of the use of robotic assistance during surgery that involves minimally invasive approaches. In the United Kingdom, robot-assisted radical ...

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AstraZeneca’s IMFINZI ® (durvalumab) in combination with gemcitabine and cisplatin as neoadjuvant treatment, followed by IMFINZI as adjuvant monotherapy after ...

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—A retrospective real-world study of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer showed that robot-assisted and laparoscopic radical cystectomy reduce post-surgical complication rates, compared to ...