Time to Move On: The Impending Need for a New Disease-specific Comorbidity Index for Bladder Cancer Patients Undergoing Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy.

Edward Lambert Frederiek D'Hondt Elio Mazzone Jonathan Vollemaere Alessandro Larcher Jolien Van Der Jeugt Gaetan Devos Pieter Uvin Marijn Goossens Filip Poelaert Geert De Naeyer Peter Schatteman Justin Collins Alexandre Mottrie Paolo Dell'Oglio

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Department of Urology, Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium; ORSI Academy, Melle, Belgium.

Published: January 2021

The Charlson comorbidity index is an outdated comorbidity assessment tool which is not disease specific and is not applicable to contemporary BCa patients.

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