Everything You Need to Know About Bladder Preservation with Dr. Leslie Ballas

In Episode 57 of Bladder Cancer Matters, host Rick Bangs talks with Dr. Leslie Ballas of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center about a topic on the minds of many patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer:  bladder preservation.  Even when the cancer has penetrated the bladder wall, can bladders still be saved?  Then answer (for some) is “yes,” and Rick and Dr. Ballas discuss:

• What bladder preservation is
• Different types of preservation like tri-modality therapy
• The role that radiation plays
• Options that patients with metastatic bladder cancer may have
• What oligometastatic bladder cancer is
• The increase in attend paid to bladder preservation as an alternative to a radical cystectomy