Bernard H. Bochner
Papers
24
Total Citations
2,002
H-Index
13
About
Bernard H. Bochner is a world-renowned urologic oncologist whose research has fundamentally shaped the surgical management of bladder cancer. His primary focus lies in advancing radical cystectomy, the gold-standard treatment for muscle-invasive disease, by rigorously comparing open and robot-assisted laparoscopic approaches. Through landmark randomized clinical trials, including a pivotal 2014 study (596 citations) and its 2018 oncologic follow-up (267 citations), Dr. Bochner demonstrated that robot-assisted surgery offers comparable perioperative safety and oncologic outcomes to open surgery, providing critical evidence for surgical decision-making. His work has also been instrumental in standardizing best practices, as seen in the Pasadena Consensus Panel recommendations (200 citations), and in optimizing patient recovery through enhanced recovery protocols (299 citations). Beyond comparative effectiveness, he has led efforts to define structured training curricula for robotic cystectomy (40 citations) and to understand long-term complications like ureteroenteric strictures. With over 1,800 cumulative citations from his top ten papers alone, Dr. Bochner’s contributions have not only improved surgical outcomes but also established the evidence base for the widespread adoption of minimally invasive techniques in urologic oncology.
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- 6A Randomized Trial of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy105 citations · 2014
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