A delay in radical cystectomy of >3 months is not associated with a worse clinical outcome

The first three papers in this section relate to the use of radical cystectomy in bladder cancer, and each study describes issues which are uncommonly written about, but which are relevant and important to any urologist who manages such patients.

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