Urinary bladder preservation for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a survey among radiation oncologists of Lombardy, Italy.

Aims And Background: Bladder preservation is a treatment option in muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma. The most investigated approach is a trimodality schedule including maximum transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) followed by chemoradiotherapy. Our aim was to evaluate the use of bladder preservation by radiation oncologists of the Lombardy region in Italy.

[Post-radiation pelvic disease and ureteral stenosis: physiopathology and evolution in the patient treated for cervical carcinoma. Review of the literature and experience of the Radium Institute].

Ureteral stenosis secondary to radiation-induced fibrosis is a well-known, late complication of radiation treatment in patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix. This paper focuses on epidemiological data, physiopathology and treatment modalities reviewed from Internet-published literature. Experience from a single institution (Institute of Radiotherapy of Brescia) is reported.