High-grade non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: Is re-resection necessary in all patients before intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment?

Scandinavian Journal of Urology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 363-369

  Holmäng, Sten ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacillus calmette gu rin; Bladder cancer; Progression; Recurrence; Second resection

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NON MUSCLE INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVESICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYSTECTOMY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NEOPLASM GRADING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84882344953     PISSN: 21681805     EISSN: 21681813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/21681805.2013.769461     Document Type: Article

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