Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer in Elderly-Unfit Patients with Concomitant Illness: Can a Curative Radiation Therapy be Delivered?

Abstract

Elderly-unfit patients with comorbidities and >70 years of age can be submitted to radical pelvic irradiation. The results observed in this retrospective analysis have encouraged us to use non-palliative radiotherapy doses in these patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.