Perioperative and Surgical Treatment for Muscle-Invasie Bladder Cancer in the Netherlands

The main topics of this thesis are: 1) the feasibility of laparoscopic radical cystectomy (LRC), 2) the application and value of the pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) at radical cystectomy (RC) in the Netherlands and 3) the application and value of neoadjuvant (chemo) therapy and RC in the Netherlands. In part I, based on the results of three case series (N=74) we concluded that the LRC can be considered a cost-neutral and oncological safe procedure with complication rates comparable to open RC series in younger and elderly patients. Data linkage with the Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR) sh... Mehr ...