Identification of Candidates for Salvage Therapy

Aug 18, 2020 by in UROLOGY Comments Off on Identification of Candidates for Salvage Therapy

Disease progression and recurrence are common among patients on Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) therapy, and options for bladder-preserving subsequent therapy remain limited. Ongoing efforts to develop better second-line bladder-sparing therapies rely…

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Salvage Therapies for Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: Who Will Respond to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin? Predictors and Nomograms

Aug 18, 2020 by in UROLOGY Comments Off on Salvage Therapies for Non–muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer: Who Will Respond to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin? Predictors and Nomograms

The best predictors of response to intravesical immunotherapy are tumor grade and stage, tumor recurrence pattern, nomograms, panels of urinary cytokines, and fluorescent in situ hybridization patterns of urine cytology…

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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Salvage Therapy

Aug 18, 2020 by in UROLOGY Comments Off on Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Salvage Therapy

High-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer is marked by frequent disease recurrences and risk of stage progression, contributing to high surveillance, treatment-related costs, and patient anxiety. Although the mainstay of high-risk…

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