The relationship between type of urinary diversion and quality of life after radical cystectomy: Ileal conduit versus orthotopic bladder.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to compare health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in patients who underwent ileal conduit (IC) vs orthotopic neobladder (ONB) as a method of urinary diversion (UD) after radical cystectomy (RC) for invasive bladder cancers.

Methods

The questionnaires of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Bladder Cancer (FACT-BL) were used to evaluate and compare the HrQoL in 113 patients with 1 year follow-up.

Results

Forty-nine patients were included in the ONB group and 64 patients in the IC group. Patients with IC showed superior scores in all domains of the FACT-BL questionnaire and this reached statistical significance in physical well-being (PWB), functional well-being (FWB), over all FACT-G, Bladder-Specific Subscale and FACT-BL total scores (P</

SUBMITTER: Elbadry MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988837 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature