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- Title
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy in stage Ta/T1 bladder cancer: prognostic factors for time to recurrence and progression.
- Authors
Andius, P.; Holäang, S.
- Abstract
To report prognostic factors for time to recurrence and progression after bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) prophylaxis in patients with stage Ta/T1 papillary bladder cancer. Maintenance treatment does not seem to be necessary among patients with TaG1-G2 disease after a negative first cystoscopy, as the progression rate was very low. One new finding was that BCG seemed to be equally effective among patients with or with no history of an upper tract tumour. Another new and surprising finding was that patients treated with fewer than six induction instillations, because of very bothersome side-effects, had an increased risk of tumour progression and of local failure.
- Subjects
DISEASE relapse; BCG vaccines; BLADDER cancer; CYSTOSCOPY; TOXICOLOGY; TUMOR growth
- Publication
BJU International, 2004, Vol 93, Issue 7, p980
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2003.04764.x