Abstract | OBJECTIVE: METHODS: 125 patients who underwent radical cystectomy were evaluated. The mean follow-up was 62 months. At the time of the study, 65 patients were alive (3 with bladder tumor and 1 with a second primary) and 60 patients had died (50 from bladder cancer and 10 from other causes). Nine patients were lost to follow-up. The Kaplan-Meier method was used for the survival analysis and the log-rank test for the comparison of the variables. RESULTS: The overall survival at 5 years was 50% and the cancer-specific survival was 56%. By tumor stage, the cancer-specific survival at 3 and 5 years were respectively: 83% and 85% for pT1, 78% and 70% for pT2, 52% and 42% for pT3, 24% and 12% for pT4 and 14% for pN+ (p < 0.0001). No differences were found between stages pT2a (73% and 68%) and pT2b (71% and 53%) (p = 0.2). The survival was significantly higher in patients with no residual tumor in the cystectomy specimen (pT0) (93% and 83%) than in those with residual tumor (60% and 53%) (p = 0.03). CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | F Herranz Amo, J M Díez Cordero, F Verdú Tartajo, A Bielsa Carrillo, J García Burgos, D Subirá Ríos, I Castaño González |
Journal | Archivos espanoles de urologia
(Arch Esp Urol)
Vol. 53
Issue 7
Pg. 619-24
(Sep 2000)
ISSN: 0004-0614 [Print] Spain |
Vernacular Title | La cistectomía radical en el tratamiento del cáncer de vejiga. |
PMID | 11037655
(Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Carcinoma, Transitional Cell
(mortality, pathology, surgery)
- Cystectomy
(methods)
- Humans
- Retrospective Studies
- Survival Analysis
- Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
(mortality, pathology, surgery)
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