Blood transfusions during neoadjuvant chemotherapy for muscle-invasive urinary bladder cancer may have a negative impact on overall survival.

Conclusions: This is the first time that the extent and plausible effects of allogenic blood transfusions during NAC is examined in MIBC. Data suggest that there may be an association between blood transfusion and poor pathological and oncological outcome. Firm conclusions are difficult to draw due to few study participants and the retrospective nature of the study. PMID: 31960752 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Scand J Urol Source Type: research