Title: Phase II study of intravesical chemoprophylaxis of epirubicin after transurethral resection of bladder tumors
Abstract: We performed intravesical instillation of epirubicin in 53 patients with the aim of preventing recurrence of bladder tumors. The patients had undergone transurethral resection of superficial bladder tumors (only transitional-cell carcinoma) within the preceding week, between January of 1990 and July of 1991. Recurrence was found in 11.3% (6/53) of cases during follow-up periods lasting from 1 to 20 months. Side effects occurred in 5.7% (3/53) of the patients. The cumulative nonrecurrence rate was 96.0% for a follow-up period of 6 months and 78.4% for 12 months. The results of this study suggest that intravesical instillation of epirubicin is very useful as adjuvant therapy after transurethral resection of superficial bladder tumors.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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