Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Cora N. Sternberg INTRODUCTION Muscle-invasive bladder cancer is an aggressive disease, with a high rate of metastases. One third of bladder cancers…
Invasive Bladder Cancer ▪ 23A Radical Cystectomy and Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection Bernard H. Bochner Marcus L. Quek Donald G. Skinner INTRODUCTION Invasive bladder cancer is a potentially lethal disease….
Bladder Preservation Strategies for Invasive Bladder Cancer ▪ 24A Trimodality Therapy: Selective Bladder Preservation in the Treatment of Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Mohamed E. Abazeed Jason A. Efstathiou Niall M. Heney…
Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer ▪ 22A Low-Risk Noninvasive Bladder Cancer J. Alfred Witjes WHAT IS LOW-RISK NON-MUSCLE-INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER? Non-muscle-invasive urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) of the bladder is a spectrum of…
Imaging of Transitional Cell Carcinoma Efrén J. Flores Mukesh Harisinghani Transitional cell carcinoma is the predominant histologic type of urothelial cancer in the United States and western Europe, accounting for…
Upper Tract Tumors ▪ 21A Management of Upper Tract Tumors Guilherme Godoy Seth P. Lerner INTRODUCTION The mucosal surface of the renal pelvis and ureters shares the embryologic origin of…
Bladder Cancer Staging Theresa M. Koppie Bernard H. Bochner Cancer-staging systems provide a uniform means by which the extent of a tumor can be communicated to others and should highlight…
Screening, Early Detection, and Prevention of Bladder Cancer Antonio J. Otero H. Barton Grossman Colin P.N. Dinney SCREENING AND EARLY DETECTION Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in…
Pathology and Cytology of Tumors of the Urinary Tract Hikmat Al-Ahmadie Oscar Lin Victor E. Reuter NORMAL ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY The mucosal surface of the renal pelvis, ureters, urinary bladder,…
Molecular Biology and Prognostic Markers in Bladder Cancer Anirban P. Mitra Dan Theodorescu Seth P. Lerner Richard J. Cote Ram H. Datar INTRODUCTION Significant advances in our understanding of the…
