ABSTRACT

The choices of treatment alternatives in patients with bladder cancer effects the health positively or sometimes negatively but can cause changes in many areas of their life. Either attempts diagnostic and treatment and radical surgeries in invasive bladder cancer have a major impact on quality of life. Recently, there is a major effort on studies about these effects. On review of literature, it can be seen that lack of adequate studies about quality of life after treatment according to stage. The instruments used on determining quality of life, must be established, reliable and convenient for patient populations and have known psychometric properties. There is need studies about subject that well designed, interdisciplinary forcefulled, methodologically appropriate, used universally agreed QoL instruments, prospective longitudinal and have properly matched controls.