What Can Patient-centered Quality-of-Life Research in Bladder Cancer Teach Us About Kidney Cancer?

Drs Sumanta Pal and Sarah P. Psutka discuss the current quality-of-life research in bladder cancer, prehabilitation practices, helpful technology, and how this can be applied to renal cell carcinoma.

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Resources

Renal Cell Carcinoma https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/281340-overview

Patient-centered Outcomes Research https://www.pcori.org/research/about-our-research/patient-centered-outcomes-research

Bladder Cancer https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/438262-overview

Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network https://bcan.org/

Translational Research Program https://trp.cancer.gov/

Bladder Cancer Chemotherapy https://bcan.org/bladder-cancer-chemotherapy/

ExerciseRx https://thesportsinstitute.com/our-work/exercise-rx/

Forty Years of Cisplatin-based Chemotherapy in Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: Are We Understanding How, Who and When? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30392011/

Changes in Lean Muscle Mass Associated With Neoadjuvant Platinum-based Chemotherapy in Patients With Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30417052/

Sarcopenia https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/sarcopenia

Current Role of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057358/

Rural-urban Disparities in Geriatric Assessment (GA) Impairments and Mortality Among Older Adults With Cancer: Results From the Cancer and Aging Resilience Evaluation (CARE) Registry https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.12012

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Sarcopenic Obesity: What About in the Cancer Setting? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35436691/

IO-IO vs IO-TKI Efficacy in Metastatic Kidney Cancer Patients: A Structured Systematic Review Over Time https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36333148/

Cytokine Storm https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/cytokine-storm

Cytokines, Inflammation, and Pain https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426506/

Assessment of Distress and Quality of Life in Rare Cancers https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30171792/