Identification of Candidates for Salvage Therapy: The Past, Present, and Future of Defining Bacillus Calmette-Gu érin Failure.

This article describes historical definitions of BCG failure, as well as recent efforts to better delineate and refine the clinical criteria for identifying individual patients who will not benefit from further intravesical BCG therapy. It also reviews guidance from the most recent expert consensus panels and professional association guidelines regarding which patients should not receive additional BCG therapy. PMID: 31757296 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Urologic Clinics of North America - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tags: Urol Clin North Am Source Type: research