key articles
Is low bladder compliance predictive of detrusor overactivity?
Thursday, 2 October 2008 - Bladder compliance (BC) expresses the relationship between bladder volume and bladder pressure and is generally regarded as a measure of bladder stiffness or distensibility. Many types of voiding...
Authors: Harding et al.
External beam radiation followed by interstitial radiotherapy with Iridium-192 for solitary bladder tumours
Wednesday, 1 October 2008 - Van Onna et al. (2008) evaluated the long-term results of iridium-192 brachytherapy-based bladder-sparing treatment strategy in patients with solitary invasive bladder tumours.
The authors performed a...
Authors: Van Onna et al.
Bladder preservation in selected patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer by complete transurethral resection plus systemic chemotherapy
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - Many phase 2 bladder-sparing programmes using transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB) plus chemotherapy or radio-chemotherapy have been undertaken, but some controversies remain. Solsona et al....
Authors: Solsona et al.
Long-term survival after combined modality treatment in metastatic bladder cancer patients
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 - De Vries et al. (2008) evaluated if combined treatment should be offered to bladder cancer patients presenting with supra-regional lymph node metastases only and a clinical complete or partial...
Authors: de Vries et al.
Outcomes of patients after aborted radical cystectomy for intraoperative findings of metastatic disease
Monday, 29 September 2008 - Guzzo et al. (2008) assessed the clinical outcome of patients with bladder cancer who underwent attempted radical cystectomy (RC) with curative intent, but whose procedures were aborted due to...
Authors: Guzzo et al.
Muscle invasive bladder cancer in Upper Egypt: the shift in risk factors and tumor characteristics
Monday, 29 September 2008 - In Egypt, where bilharziasis is endemic, bladder cancer is the commonest cancer in males and the 2nd in females; squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the commonest type found, with a peculiar mode of...
Authors: Zarzour et al.
Simultaneous treatment of pelvic lymph nodes and bladder by intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Monday, 29 September 2008 - Sondergaard et al. (2008) implemented an intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) protocol for simultaneous irradiation of bladder and lymph nodes. The authors compared doses to normal tissue from IMRT...
Authors: Sondergaard et al.
Role of cystoscopy in the diagnosis of Hunner's ulcer disease
Friday, 12 September 2008 - Interstitial cystitis can be classified into Hunner's ulcer and nonulcer disease, which are easily distinguished by cystoscopic examination. Although therapeutic options may differ between these 2...
Authors: Braunstein et al.
Does statin affect bacillus Calmette-Guerin for transitional cell bladder cancer?
Thursday, 11 September 2008 - Bacillus Calmette-Guerin is an effective immunotherapy for carcinoma in situ of the bladder and it reduces recurrence from resected papillary transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. Many patients...
Authors: Berglund et al.
Diabetes mellitus, body size and bladder cancer risk
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 - Epidemiologic studies on diabetes and body size in relation to risk of bladder cancer have yielded inconsistent results. Larsson et al. (2008) examined prospectively the associations between a history...
Authors: Larsson et al.
