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Bladder Preservation Therapies in Bladder Cancer

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Intravesical therapies with close monitoring are adequate for superficial disease, and chemotherapy and palliative radiotherapy are the main treatment options in metastatic stages. For muscle-invasive disease, treatment strategies are basically divided into two groups: surgery vs. trimodality treatment (TMT) that involves transurethral resection (TUR) of tumor tissues and concurrent radiochemotherapy (RCT); radiotherapy (RT) monotherapy is not recommended as primary curative option, and multimodality treatment is currently regarded only as an alternative in selected, well-informed, and compliant patients in whom cystectomy is not considered for clinical or personal reasons.

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Guler, O.C., Onal, C. (2017). Bladder Preservation Therapies in Bladder Cancer. In: Ozyigit, G., Selek, U. (eds) Principles and Practice of Urooncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56114-1_4

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