Abstract
From the Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit (FA, MS, JS, ZT) and Department of Urology, University of Montreal Health Centre (OD, CJ, PP, PIK) , Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Urology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University (FA), Milan, Italy, Department of Urology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University (SFS), New York, New York, and Martiniclinic, Prostate Cancer Center University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (JS), Hamburg, Germany
Highlights
GERIATRIC UROLOGY The importance of pelvic lymph node dissection in the elderly population: implications for interpreting the 2010 national comprehensive cancer network practice guidelines for bladder cancer treatment Abdollah F, Sun M, Shariat SF, Schmitges J, Djahangirian O, Tian Z, Jeldres C, Perrotte P, Montorsi F, Karakiewicz PI Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Urology, Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy J Urol. 2011; 185: 2078-84
National Comprehensive Cancer Network practice guidelines indicate that pelvic lymph node dissection can be omitted at radical cystectomy in elderly patients
We examined the pelvic lymph node dissection rate in patients 80 years old or older and the impact of pelvic lymph node dissection on cancer specific and overall mortality in these patients
Summary
Purpose: National Comprehensive Cancer Network practice guidelines indicate that pelvic lymph node dissection can be omitted at radical cystectomy in elderly patients. We examined the pelvic lymph node dissection rate in patients 80 years old or older and the impact of pelvic lymph node dissection on cancer specific and overall mortality in these patients.
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