Brachytherapy versus cystectomy in solitary bladder cancer: a case control, multicentre, East-Netherlands study.

Purpose: Comparing the outcome of surgery and brachytherapy-based radiotherapy in patients with solitary T1G3/T2 bladder tumour in, a retrospective case-control study, because efforts for a randomised clinical trial comparing these modalities have failed.

Materials And Methods: Cystectomy group. Patients were selected using the pathological registration system (PALGA).

Saving bladders with brachytherapy: implantation technique and results.

Purpose: To analyze and report the treatment results of brachytherapy for solitary bladder cancer in the Arnhem Radiotherapy Institute.

Methods And Materials: Between January 1983 and October 1998, 63 patients with a solitary bladder tumor were treated with a combination of transurethral resection, external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), and interstitial radiotherapy. The indications for bladder-conserving treatment were tumor < or =5 cm, T1G3 (n = 14), T2G2 (n = 8), T2G3 (n = 37), and T3a (n = 4).