Trimodal Therapy is Inferior to Radical Cystectomy for Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer using Population-level Data: Is There Evidence in the (Lack of) Details?

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¹ Division of Urology, Departments of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: girish1975@gmail.com.
² Division of Urology, Departments of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Girish S Kulkarni et al. Eur Urol. 2017 Oct.

. 2017 Oct;72(4):488-489.

doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2017.04.028. Epub 2017 May 6.

¹ Division of Urology, Departments of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Electronic address: girish1975@gmail.com.
² Division of Urology, Departments of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Comparative Effectiveness of Trimodal Therapy Versus Radical Cystectomy for Localized Muscle-invasive Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder.
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