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INTERSTITIAL RADIATION IN THE TREATMENT OF SELECTED CASES OF CANCER OF THE BLADDER
Author(s) -
Carver J. H.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1959.tb09422.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bladder cancer , surgery , radiation therapy , cancer , bladder neoplasm , urinary bladder
SUMMARY Ninety‐nine cases of cancer of the bladder graded T1 and T2 were treated by local excision and interstitial radiation between 1949 and 1956. There were four operative deaths. Sixty‐five patients were free of growth for two to nine years after operation. Eight patients who died of other causes were cystoscopically free of tumour before their death. Three of these patients died the same year and the other five patients lived from one to seven years after operation. There were seventeen deaths from cancer of the bladder. Of the patients who are alive and tumour‐free, thirty‐six were T1 and twenty‐nine T2, and of the seventeen who died of their disease three were T1 and fourteen T2. This method of treatment seems a satisfactory procedure for T1 and T2 bladder carcinomas.