Quality of surgical care can impact survival in patients with bladder cancer after robot-assisted radical cystectomy: results from the International Robotic Cystectomy Consortium

Abstract Background Although pathological factors remain the main determinate of survival for patients with bladder cancer, quality of surgical care is crucial for satisfactory outcomes. Using a validated quality score, we investigated the impact of surgical factors on the overall survival (OS), rec...

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Main Authors: Youssef Ahmed, Ahmed A. Hussein, Paul R. May, Basel Ahmad, Amir Khan, John Benkowski, Ayesha Durrani, Saira Khan, Justen Kozlowski, Matthias Saar, Carl J. Wijburg, Lee Richstone, Andrew Wagner, Bertram Yuh, Joan Palou Redorta, Prokar Dasgupta, Mohammad Shamim Khan, Mani Menon, James O. Peabody, Abolfazl Hosseini, Franco Gaboardi, Giovannalberto Pini, Francis Schanne, Alexandre Mottrie, Koon-ho Rha, Ashok Hemal, Michael Stockle, John Kelly, Wei Shen Tan, Thomas J. Maatman, Vassilis Poulakis, Jihad Kaouk, Abdullah Erdem Canda, Mevlana Derya Balbay, Peter Wiklund, Khurshid A. Guru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-06-01
Series:African Journal of Urology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12301-020-00031-y