Long-Term Survival of Metastatic Bladder Cancer Treated With Chemotherapy, Radiation, and Arthroplasty: A Case Report.

CASE: A 64-year-old man suffered a pathologic left femoral neck fracture. Biopsy demonstrated metastatic urothelial cancer with a nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer primary confirmed by cystoscopy. The patient underwent hemiarthroplasty, chemotherapy, radiation, and eventually, a conversion to total hip arthroplasty. Today, over a decade from the initial surgery, the patient remains alive and highly functional. To our knowledge, this is the only report of bone metastatic bladder cancer with over 10-year survival.

CONCLUSION

Combined chemotherapy, radiation, and surgical resection of metastasis with reconstruction may confer a survival benefit in bony oligometastatic bladder cancer.