Association of increased age with decreased response to intravesical instillation of Bacille Calmette-Gu érin in patients with high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: Retrospective multi-institute results from the Japanese Urological Oncology Research Group JUOG-UC-1901-BCG

: To compare the therapeutic effect of Bacille Calmette-Gu érin (BCG) intravesical instillation in older and younger patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). The comparison was performed with propensity score matching (PSM) without terminating the death of the older patients using relatively large-scale retrospective data from mu ltiple institutes in Japan.

Source: Urology - June 11, 2022 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Takamitsu Inoue, Makito Miyake, Nobutaka Nishimura, Mizuki Onozawa, Soki Kashima, Kazuyuki Numakura, Shintaro Narita, Kota Iida, Motohide Uemura, Yuto Matsushita, Junichi Inokuchi, Yoshiyuki Matsui, Rikiya Taoka, Takahiro Kojima, Takashi Kobayashi, Naotak Tags: Original Article Source Type: research