Morbidity And Quality Of Life In Elderly Patients Receiving Ileal Conduit Or Orthotopic Neobladder After Radical Cystectomy
UroToday.com - Contemporary teaching is that the quality of life of patients with invasive bladder cancer undergoing a radical cystectomy and neobladder is superior to that of patients undergoing an ileal conduit. In this study, the authors evaluated the morbidity, survival, and quality of life in elderly patients with invasive bladder cancer undergoing a radical cystectomy who received an orthotopic neobladder or an ileal conduit. This was a retrospective review of 85 patients, aged 75 or older (median age 78), who had received an ileal conduit (n = 53) or an orthotopic neobladder (n = 32) after radical cystectomy at 3 Italian institutions. The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) instruments quality of life questionnaire C30 (QLQ-C30) and QLQ-muscle-invasive bladder cancer module (QLQ-BLM) were utilized in 34 of the 37 patients alive at the time of evaluation
