Contents
Epidemiology and prevention of bladder cancer.- Early diagnosis and screening.- Non-invasive diagnosis.- Molecular pathology of tumour progression and metastasis.- Staging: Past, present and future.- Magnetic resonance imaging.- Prognostic factors.- Surgical management.- Transurethral resection in patients with muscle-infiltrating bladder cancer.- Nodal involvement.- Pre-operative and definitive radiation therapy.- Neo-adjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy — true and false.- Oncological rationale for function-sparing surgery.- Combination therapy and function-sparing surgery for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.- Chemotherapy of metastatic transitional cell cancer.- Invasive transitional cell cancer in the elderly.- Quality of life.- Urethra involvement and bladder cancer.- Lower urinary tract reconstruction.- Salvage cystectomy.
