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- Title
Instillation Strategies for Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer in the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Shortage Era: A Simple Solution for BCG Discontinuation.
- Authors
Lin, Po-Ting; Hsieh, Ming-Li; Su, Shih-Huan; Chang, Ying-Hsu; Huang, Liang-Kang; Chu, Yuan-Cheng; Kan, Hung-Cheng; Lin, Po-Hung; Yu, Kai-Jie; Chuang, Cheng-Keng; Wu, Chun-Te; Pang, See-Tong; Shao, I-Hung
- Abstract
The chemotherapy instillation protocol also consisted of six weekly intravesical instillations as the induction course and monthly instillations at months 3 to 14 as the maintenance course. For patients who initiated a BCG instillation protocol but discontinued it due to shortage or toxicity, some had shifted to a chemotherapy instillation protocol, but others stopped instillation management. Data on tumour-related parameters, such as tumour stage, tumour histology, pathological grade, and intravesical instillation data, including the number of BCG instillations and chemotherapy instillations, and total intravesical instillations, were also recorded. There were two results in the BCG instillation group when facing BCG discontinuation, one is no further instillation plan, and the other is shifting to chemotherapy instillation.
- Subjects
BLADDER cancer; CANCER invasiveness; INTRAVESICAL administration
- Publication
Cancer Management & Research, 2022, Vol 14, p3121
- ISSN
1179-1322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2147/CMAR.S383627