“…Salvage surgery is extensive and mainly involves the urinary tract (bladder, urethra and ureters) requiring urinary diversion, but interdisciplinary collaboration is a prerequisite. However, mortality rates of up to 11% reported in earlier series may be discouraging [5,6,10,13] . Indeed, complications do occur, especially when taking the 51% of patients who underwent previous radiation therapy into account [5,6,14,15] , but the majority of these complications can be managed conservatively and do not require additional surgery.…”