Everything You Need to Know About Bladder Preservation with Dr. Leslie Ballas
Bladder Cancer Matters
English - October 20, 2023 18:13 - 31 minutes - 72.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness cancersurvivorship bladdercancer cancerresearch Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In Episode 57 of Bladder Cancer Matters, host Rick Bangs talks with Dr. Leslie Ballas of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center about a topic on the minds of many patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer: keeping their bladders. Even when the cancer has penetrated the bladder wall, can bladders still be saved? Then answer (for some) is “yes,” and Rick and Dr. Ballas discuss:
What bladder preservation is Different types of preservation like tri-modality therapy The role that radiation plays Options that patients with metastatic bladder cancer may haveWhat oligometastatic bladder cancer is The increase in attend paid to bladder preservation as an alternative to a radical cystectomy
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