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|Videos|October 16, 2020
How do costs compare for radical versus partial cystectomy?
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Stephen B. Williams, MD, MS, discusses a recent study evaluating costs of surgical treatments for bladder cancer.
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In this interview, Stephen B. Williams, MD, MS, discusses findings from a recent Urology paper, Comparing Costs of Radical Versus Partial Cystectomy for Patients Diagnosed With Localized Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: Understanding the Value of Surgical Care, for which he served as a study author. Williams is chief of urology and professor of urology and radiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
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