Editing Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer (section)

=== Primary chemotherapy ===
* '''Limited data on chemotherapy alone'''
** Population: 63 patients who declined cystectomy after achieving a complete response with neoadjuvant chemotherapy
** Results:
*** At a minimum of 5 years of follow-up
**** 36% of patients ultimately died of bladder cancer, of which the majority relapsed with invasive disease in the bladder
**** 64% of patients were alive and 54% exhibited an intact bladder.
** [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18248875 Herr, Harry W.] "Outcome of patients who refuse cystectomy after receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer." european urology 54.1 (2008): 126-132.