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Surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer: clinicopathological and surgical outcomes

Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) before radical cystectomy (RC) is the standard of care for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) owing to the survival advantage, which has correlated with down-staging of the cancer to pT0. This approach is underused because it may be associated with increased perioperative morbidity and mortality rates. This study was designed to evaluate NAC plus RC regarding pathological response, perioperative morbidity and mortality outcomes.

Methods This is a prospective study that was carried out from August 2015 till July 2017 for patients with bladder carcinoma. We enrolled all cases with ≥ T2 bladder receiving NAC. Patients with metastatic disease, poor performance were excluded from this study.

Results pathological response rate and Complications occurred within 30 and 90 d after surgery. Heterologous blood transfusions, length of stay, readmission, and perioperative morbidity, and mortality were compared.

Conclusions Our results suggest that non-urothelial tumor showed no response to Platinum based combination chemotherapeutic regimens. NAC followed by RC gives no more perioperative complications.