A cystectomy is a surgery to remove your bladder. The bladder can stretch or relax to hold about 2 cups of urine (pee). Cystectomy often treats bladder cancer. But bladder removal surgery can help ...

When Jodi Byfuglin, 56, was diagnosed with bladder cancer, it felt like cruel irony. Byfuglin had lost both her parents to cancer in their 50s, and as a single mother of two, she was all her kids had ...

While ORC remains the standard for refractory non-muscle invasive and muscle invasive bladder cancer, RARC is gaining acceptance and is now used in approximately one third of cystectomies in the ...

"We found CKD to be independently associated with a higher likelihood of nonorgan confined disease and lymph node metastases as well as postoperative transfusion and 90-day readmissions." – Nguyen, et ...

a No deaths were reported. b Three patients underwent cystectomy for atrophic bladder and four female patients for cervical cancer. c Percentage calculated on a total of 27 patients. d Forty male ...

Although muscle-invasive disease is often treated by removal of the bladder, experts reveal potential high risk of death. Standard treatment for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer is radical ...

Partial cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer offers metastasis- and cancer-free survival comparable to that of radical cystectomy, but with less perioperative morbidity. Partial and radical ...

A 30-day course of prophylactic antibiotics following robot-assisted radical cystectomy significantly reduces the incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) and related complications, researchers ...