Prognosis of node-positive bladder cancer in 2016

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Lymph node (LN) positive bladder cancer is a serious disease associated with a poor prognosis. Nevertheless even after radical cystectomy and lymph node dissection alone long-term oncologic control has been reported in a subset of these patients. Efforts have been made to stratify LN-positive patients according to various prognostic factors to make more individualized risk estimations. This review attempts to summarize the existing data on prognostic determinants in node-positive bladder cancer. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: A literature search of the English literature was performed in October 2015 on PubMed using the search terms "bladder cancer", "node-positive" and "prognosis/outco..