BLADDER PRESERVATION WITH IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH MUSCLE-INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER: A SINGLE INSTUTION EXPERIENCE

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Aynaci O., Serdar L., Zengin A. Y., Savli E., Uslu G. D., Gedik S.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI, vol.24, no.2, pp.174-184, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)

• Publication Type: Article / Article
• Volume: 24 Issue: 2
• Publication Date: 2021
• Doi Number: 10.31086/tjgeri.2021.213
• Journal Name: TURKISH JOURNAL OF GERIATRICS-TURK GERIATRI DERGISI
• Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EMBASE, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
• Page Numbers: pp.174-184
• Keywords: Radiotherapy, Image-Guided, Chemoradiotherapy, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, LONG-TERM OUTCOMES, RADICAL CYSTECTOMY, CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, CARCINOMA, SURVIVAL, THERAPY, IMPACT, RTOG
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Introduction: The number of elderly patients with bladder cancer is expected to triple in the coming years in proportion to the increasing elderly population in the world. The aim of this study was to identify the prognostic factors affecting survival among elderly patients undergoing chemoradiotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.