Cystotomy and peroperative irradiation for bladder cancer: long-term results

The long-term results were investigated in 46 patients of bladder cancer treated by cystotomy and peroperative irradiation. This combination therapy appears to produce grossly comparable long-term survival results with surgery and radiotherapy. There were ten complications during a ten-year period after the treatment. We think that cystotomy and peroperative irradiation could still be used for the treatment of bladder cancer especially when the tumor is not too large, is situated at the base of the bladder, and segmental resection cannot be performed, and the patient wants to spare the bladder function.