2012 Volume 30 Pages 231-237
The purpose of this article is to review the literature dealing with microwave therapy for the treatment of bladder cancer. Various studies reviewed in this article indicated that microwave delivering devices enabled the application of local hyperthermia and coagulation therapy to treat several superficial or deep bladder cancers. The authors conclude that microwave local hyperthermia in combination with intravesical chemotherapy seems to be efficacious for patients with superficial bladder cancer and bacillus Calmette-Guerin failures, and, as the various studies suggest, transurethral microwave tissue coagulation seems to be feasible and promising as a minimally-invasive treatment for patients with superficial and deep bladder cancers. However, the use of a combined-modality treatment as an alternative to radical cystectomy remains under investigation.
