Optimal Care for Bladder Cancer Patients: Current Obstacles and Opportunities for Cystectomy Patients — Medical and Surgical Oncology Lecture

Raj S. Pruthi, MD

Chair, Department of Urology
Professor, Urologic Oncology
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNC School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lecture Description

The lecture will evaluate the recent improvements in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer (including peri-operative chemotherapy and robotic surgery), and will describe some of the obstacles to providing optimal care that still exist.

Lecture Objectives:

• Recognize the advances surgical treatment of invasive bladder
• Understand obstacles to optimal outcomes in bladder cancer patients
• Identify the advances in the peri-operative management of cystectomy patients

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Lecture Resources:

• Certification Flyers ( JPEG | PDF ) (Coming soon)
• Presentation Handout (Coming soon)
• MediaSite Live Link (Livestream of lecture coming soon; recording available for viewing within 48 hours of lecture.)

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