Intravesical gemcitabine therapy for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC): A systematic review

BJU International

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 496-505

  Shelley, Mike D ^a   Jones, Gabriel ^a   Cleves, Anne ^b   Wilt, Timothy J ^c   Mason, Malcolm D ^d   Kynaston, Howard G ^b  

^a Velindre NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research   (United States)

^d VELINDRE CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intravesical gemcitabine; non muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC); systematic review

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; GEMCITABINE; MITOMYCIN C; PLACEBO;

ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ASTHENIA; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER IRRITATION; BLEEDING; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER IMMUNIZATION; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE MARKER; DIZZINESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSURIA; FEVER; HEMATURIA; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; LEUKOPENIA; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINARY URGENCY;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BCG VACCINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856992794     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10880.x     Document Type: Review

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