Evalution of post operative radiotherapy in bladder cancer after total cystectomy

ABSTRACT

Fifty patients with carcinoma of the urinary bladder who undergone total cystectomies were reviewed for evaluation of the effect of post-operative radiotherapy. Those patients were classified into two groups, 25 patients each. One group had recievid post-operative radiotherapy and the other not. The age of patients, sex, occupation, history of B infestation, pathological type, histopathological grading, duration of the disease before surgery and duration and type of recurrence after operation were all reviewed. The results showed that the use of post operative radiotherapy has improved the outcome of these cases after surgery