Oncological Outcomes of Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Versus Early Radical Cystectomy in Very High-Risk Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort From a Latin American Referral Center.
Immediate surgery prevents high-risk bladder tumors from advancing to more dangerous cancer, significantly improving long-term disease control.
Very high-risk (VHR) bladder tumors represent a subcategory of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with a high potential for progression to muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Early radical cystectomy (ERC) is the standard treatment.
What the study was
- Study design
- Prospective Cohort/Validation
- Population
- Adult patients
- Sample size
- 112
- Category
- Treatment Innovation
- Maturity
- Validated
- Journal
- Archivos espanoles de urologia
Why it surfaced
Score 7/10: Prospective Cohort/Validation, mixed model, Validated; flag=PROMISING_PRELIMINARY
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