Prophylactic Urethrectomy Could Further Shorten the Female Bladder Cancer Recurrence and Metastasis

Review Data

The purpose of this single-centre retrospective study is to compare the clinical effects of laparoscopic cystectomy for female bladder cancer patients with respect to retention and resection of the urethra among 42 female bladder cancer patients. This study evaluates the clinical efficacy, operation duration, blood loss during surgery, hospitalization time and postoperative complications. The results suggest that the preventive resection of female urethra can significantly reduce tumor recurrence and metastasis in a patient. Further long-term study is required to give a clear idea on the clinical efficacy of recurrence of female bladder cancer after operation.

 

The study is thorough, and the selected parameters are adequate. The Discussion cites the relevant literature on the recurrence of female bladder cancer and metastasis. Overall, this article is suitable for the Journal of Surgical Oncology (JSO).

 

There are few minor errors in the article (already corrected in galley proof) which are as follows:

 

·       In Introduction, 6^th sentence, “whether to resect urethra preventive during surgery” does not make any sense and must be reframed as “whether to preventively resect urethra during surgery” and in Study Population, under Materials and Methods, in 2^nd paragraph, 2^nd sentence, “operation were excluded” must be written as “the operation was excluded”.

·       In Surgical Methods, 2^nd paragraph, 3^rd sentence, “ionic broad ligament” must be rewritten as “broad ionic ligament”.

·       In Surgical Methods, 4^th paragraph, 3^rd sentence, “abdominis” is misspelled and must be written as “abdominal”.

·       Hyphens are missing in some places like, in Surgical Methods, 1^st paragraph, 1^st sentence, “povidone iodine” must be “povidone-iodine”, 2^nd paragraph, 1^st sentence, “under screen” will be “under-screen”.

·       Determiners are missing in certain places like, in Result under Abstract, 4^th sentence, “urethral” must be “a urethral”, in Introduction, 7^th sentence, “complete” must be “the complete”.

 

Author Info

Quanxin Su Shenglin Gao Jiasheng Chen Lifeng Zhang Li Zuo

Corresponding Author

Lifeng Zhang
Department of Urology, The Affliated Changzhou No. 2 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Tue 21, Jul 2020
Accepted: Tue 04, Aug 2020
Published: Fri 14, Aug 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Lifeng Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSO.2020.04.07