It is clear that the optimal clinical outcomes in bladder cancer patients requiring radical
cystectomy are related to standard histopathologic variables of tumor grade, stage and
lymph node status. However, other less well defined variables are also critical to the
successful outcomes of these patients. Patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer and
treating physicians should avoid unnecessary and significant treatment delays. In addition,
hospital and surgeon-volume/experience are thought to be factors that may too be important …