Surgical treatment of bladder cancer in the geriatric patients.

As bladder cancer is an age-related disease and an increase in patients with MIBC seems inevitable because of the aging population in Japan, muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) care in the elderly is likely to become a very common problem in daily practice. The gold standard for patients with MIBC is radical cystectomy (RC). However, elderly patients present with several comorbidities, and the geriatric patients with MIBC were not given po-...