Quality of life in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: one-year results of a multicentre prospective cohort study.

Objective: Few studies describe the effect of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) on health-related quality of life (HRQL), although patients are mostly diagnosed at this stage of the disease. Taking into account this current evidence gap and the high incidence rates in Spain, we aimed to describe the evolution over time of HRQL in Spanish patients with NMIBC and to examine the clinical and treatment-related factors associated with HRQL change during the first year of management.

Methods And Materials: Observational multicenter prospective inception cohort study conducted in urology departments of 7 Spanish hospitals.

Bladder cancer index: cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish and psychometric evaluation.

Background: The Bladder Cancer Index (BCI) is so far the only instrument applicable across all bladder cancer patients, independent of tumor infiltration or treatment applied. We developed a Spanish version of the BCI, and assessed its acceptability and metric properties.

Methods: For the adaptation into Spanish we used the forward and back-translation method, expert panels, and cognitive debriefing patient interviews.

[Perioperative morbidity of radical prostatectomy in patients over 70 years of age].

Introduction: Increased life expectancy has made possible radical treatment of localized prostate cancer in patients over 70 years of age. Perioperative morbidity of radical prostatectomy in elderly patients depending on surgical procedure has not been adequately analyzed.

Objectives: To comparatively analyze the incidence, severity, and management of perioperative complications of retropubic versus laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in patients older than 70 years.

Intravesical migration and spontaneous expulsion of a Hem-o-lok polymer ligating clip after laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

We present a rare postoperative complication occurring after a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with nerve-sparing procedure carried out with the placement of 3 Weck Hem-o-lok-L clips in the right neurovascular bundle, in a patient with clinically localized prostate cancer. The procedure was completed without any complications and the urethral catheter was removal at 15 days. We report a case of intravesical migration and subsequent calculus formation with spontaneous expulsion of Hem-o-lok clip.

[The impact of statins use in clinically localized prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy].

Introduction: Use of statins has been associated with reduced risk, progression and mortality of some tumors, including prostate cancer (CaP). According to recent Studies, long-term treatment with statins significantly reduces the risk of PC and also confers a protective effect against advanced or aggressive CaP. However, there is no conclusive data regarding the potential effect on patients diagnosed with clinically localized CaP undergoing radical treatment.