Publications by authors named "Fahmy Al-Sayed Hassan"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to determine the prognostic value of photodynamic diagnosis (PDD)-guided bladder tumor resection (TUR-BT) in patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder cancer.
- Out of 224 patients, those who underwent HAL-guided TUR-BT exhibited significantly better 3-year recurrence-free survival (RFS), cancer-specific survival (CSS), and overall survival (OS) rates compared to those who had ALA or white light (WL) TUR-BT.
- The findings suggest that HAL-guided TUR-BT not only improves patient outcomes but also highlights several independent predictors of survival, emphasizing its potential role in bladder cancer treatment protocols.
Objective: Comorbidity and performance indices (CPIs) are useful tools to evaluate patient's risk of comorbidities and thus may guide clinical decision making regarding surgery or multimodal therapy approaches. Hence, the aim of the current study was to assess the predictive capacity of CPIs comprising the American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA)-score, the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), the age-adjusted CCI (ACCI), and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG-PS) in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) who were treated with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU).
Methods And Materials: A total of 242 patients with UTUC underwent RNU without neoadjuvant chemotherapy between 1992 and 2012 at 3 German academic centers.