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Abstract Urinary bladder cancer is a common disease worldwide. Urinary bladder cancer ranks ninth in the worldwide cancer incidence (Ferlay et al., 2004). It is the seventh most common malignancy in men and seventeenth in women. Urinary bladder cancer is the second most common malignancy of all genitourinary tumors after prostate cancer and is nearly three times more common in men than in women (Jemal et al., 2005). Radical cystectomy is the standard treatment for patients with invasive bladder cancer and for those with superficial bladder cancer who did not respond to intravesical therapy (Cheryl et al., 2006-Solsona et al., 2003). This study aims at evaluation of long-term outcomes, both functional and oncological, in patients treated with radical cystectomy and different types of diversion for invasive bladder cancer. This retrospective study was conducted in Kasr EL- Aini hospitals and Students’ Hospital, between June 2009 and December 2010. The study included 65 patients, 51 males and 14 females, whom underwent radical cystectomy for bladder malignancy with different types of diversions (ileal neobladder, ileal coduit, ureterocolic, ureterocutaneous) Follow-up was done starting 6 months after operation and every 3 months (9 and 12 months), for older patients follow up was done at the time of their attendance at the outpatient clinic. Summary 83 Results: Erectile dysfunction developed post-operatively in 41 males (80.4%) in non nerve sparing cystectomy, Nocturnal incontinence 41%, Stress incontinence 4.5%, Urge incontinence 4.5%, Total incontinence2.27% while 21 patients (47.7%) were continent day and night, Stones developed post-operatively in 2 patients (3.1%), Stomal stenosis developed in 2 patients (12.5% of stomas), Incisional hernia developed in 2 patients (3.1%), Ureteric stricture in 2 patients (3.1%),, Rediversion was done in one patient (1.5%), Recurrent UTI was recorded in 19 cases (29.2% ) 10 cases of orthotopic diversion, 5 cases of ureterocolic, 3 cases of ureterocutaneous and one case of ileal conduit, Uraemia & Dialysis in15.4% of cases, Metastasis was recorded as follows (Local 1.5%, Distant 18.5% and both 3.1%) and Mortality 24.6%. . Conclusion: Long term follow-up for patients with radical cystectomy and urinary diversion shows high complication and high surgical re-intervention rates. Longer follow-up period for years is needed for radical cystectomy with urinary diversion techniques to verify causes and prevent complications. References |