Beyond staging: toward a layered risk architecture after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer
Christian Gilfrich, Anton Kravchuk, Emily Rinderknecht, Maximilian Haas, Maximilian Burger, Ingmar Wolff, Sabine D Brookman-May, Matthias May · 2026
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Christian Gilfrich and co-authors wrote a 2026 editorial on risk calls after bladder removal for cancer. The surgery can cure, but it brings heavy strain and a clouded long view. Once the final tissue report lands, doctors juggle stage, node spread, vessel spread, cut edges, past drug care, frailty, and body reserve, most often by feel.
They discuss a pooled review of 77 studies that summed models for survival and for cancer-free spans. Its worth lies in sums that adjust for the other traits at play. Stage and nodes stay strong, but the pooled work shows how each trait weighs against the rest. No ready score falls out of it, they note. Its gift is a map of which risk layers the next tools must hold.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Christian Gilfrich, Anton Kravchuk, Emily Rinderknecht, Maximilian Haas, Maximilian Burger, Ingmar Wolff, Sabine D Brookman-May, Matthias May |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |