Radical Cystectomy Facing Extinction ?

The difficulty in widespread adoption of these minimally invasive options are steep learning curves, limited facilities for training, in the case of robotics formidable initial capital costs and cost of disposables. At present it may be fair to say that there is still a place for open, laparoscopic and robotic radical cystectomy until we have made rigorous evaluation of the new minimally invasive surgical options. A review of our experience of minimally invasive radical cystectomy will be presented.