Carcinoma of the Bladder

Abstract

RECENT years have seen an increasing tendency to treat cancer of the bladder by radical methods. The present seems to be the time to evaluate our long-term results of total cystectomy and to determine whether the removal of the diseased bladder has resulted in a significantly higher long-term survival rate than have other less formidable procedures. In particular, the indications for total cystectomy seem to require clarification.From 1934 to 1950, 103 total cystectomies for cancer of the bladder were performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital. The results up to the present time are known in all these cases. Seventeen . . .