Re-establishing the Role of Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy After the 2020 EAU Muscle-invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer Guideline Panel Recommendations.

Montorsi, Francesco; Bandini, Marco; Briganti, Alberto; Dasgupta, Prokar; Gallina, Andrea; Gallucci, Michele; Gill, Inderbir S; Guru, Khurshid A et al. · Eur Urol · 2020

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Abstract

The EAU guidelines panel on muscle-invasive and metastatic bladder cancer (MIBC) recently recommended open radical cystectomy (ORC) as the best surgical approach for MIBC patients. We critically re-examine the indications for considering ORC as the first choice over robot-assisted radical cystectomy. To the best of our knowledge, this is not supported by trials or meta-analyses.

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