Upper Egypt experience in bladder preservation using concurrent chemoradiotherapy
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Upper Egypt experience in bladder preservation using concurrent chemoradiotherapy
OBJECTIVE To share our experience in bladder preservation in Upper Egypt, Assiut and Sohag Universities, using different treatment protocols. In Sohag study patients with operable muscle invasive bladder cancer were included and underwent transurethral resection followed by radiochemotherapy (5- fluorouracil and Cisplatin) for bladder preservation. In Assiut study after maximum safe resection o...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Archives of Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1755-7682
DOI: 10.1186/1755-7682-6-21