Outcome of patients with clinically node-positive bladder cancer undergoing consolidative surgery after preoperative chemotherapy: The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Experience

Multimodality treatment approach with upfront chemotherapy followed by surgery can result in a 66% 5-year CSS rate for patients rendered as having pN0 category disease despite initially presenting with node-positive disease. However, as those with residual disease do so poorly, further efforts in refining selection of patients for surgical consolidation are needed.