Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumour: The Neglected Procedure in the Technology Race in Bladder Cancer

Hugh Mostafid; Marko Babjuk; Bernard Bochner; Seth P Lerner; Fred Witjes; Joan Palou; Morgan Roupret; Sharokh Shariat; Paolo Gontero; Bas van Rhijn; Richard Zigeuner; Richard Sylvester; Eva Comperat; Maximilian Burger; Bernard Malavaud; Mark Soloway; Stephen Williams; Peter Black; Siamak Daneshmand; Gary Steinberg; Maurizio Brausi; Jim Catto; Ashish M Kamat

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2020.03.005

Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumour: The Neglected Procedure in the Technology Race in Bladder Cancer

Eur Urol. 2020 Jun;77(6):669-670. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.03.005. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Authors

Hugh Mostafid¹, Marko Babjuk², Bernard Bochner³, Seth P Lerner⁴, Fred Witjes⁵, Joan Palou⁶, Morgan Roupret⁷, Sharokh Shariat⁸, Paolo Gontero⁹, Bas van Rhijn¹⁰, Richard Zigeuner¹¹, Richard Sylvester¹², Eva Comperat¹³, Maximilian Burger¹⁴, Bernard Malavaud¹⁵, Mark Soloway¹⁶, Stephen Williams¹⁷, Peter Black¹⁸, Siamak Daneshmand¹⁹, Gary Steinberg²⁰, Maurizio Brausi²¹, Jim Catto²², Ashish M Kamat²³

Affiliations

¹ Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford, UK.
² Department of Urology, Hospital Motol, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
³ Urologic Surgery Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
⁵ Nijmegen Medical Centre, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Urology, Fundacio Puigvert, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Department of Urology, Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere, Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris Sorbonne Universitaire, Paris, France.
⁸ Department of Urology and Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁹ Division of Urology, Molinette Hospital, University of Torino School of Medicine, Torino, Italy.
¹⁰ Netherlands Cancer Institute, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of Urology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
¹² EAU Guidelines Office, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹³ Department of Pathology, Hopital Tenon, Group Hospitalier Est Parisian, Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
¹⁴ Department of Urology, Caritas St Josef Medical Centre, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
¹⁵ Department of Urology, Institut Universitaire du Cancer, Toulouse, France.
¹⁶ Memorial Healthcare System, Aventura, FL, USA.
¹⁷ The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
¹⁹ Institute of Urology, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
²⁰ Perlmutter Cancer Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
²¹ Urologia dell'Ospedale di Carpi, Modena, Italy.
²² Academic Urology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
²³ Department of Urology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: akamat@mdanderson.org.

PMID: 32192815
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.03.005

Abstract

Transurethral resection of bladder tumour is the initial, most critical step in the management of bladder cancer; as such, this is a call to arms for the urological community to it the due diligence it deserves regarding technology and training.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Biomedical Technology
Cystectomy / methods*
Humans
Urethra
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / surgery*