Prognostic impact of non-adherence to follow-up cystoscopy in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC)

Autor: Gustavo Borges de Mendonça, Wilmar Azal Neto, Jean Carlo F. Datovo, Leonardo Oliveira Reis, Danilo Leite Andrade
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: World journal of urology. 37(10)
ISSN: 1433-8726
Popis: To evaluate the underexplored context of cystoscopy adherent versus non-adherent patients in the follow-up of urothelial high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). We performed a retrospective study (2005–2016) that evaluated patients´ demographical characteristics, histopathological data, recurrence, progression and cancer-specific mortality between adherent and non-adherents patients in the first 3 years of a proposed cystoscopy protocol. Among the 198 included patients, comparing cystoscopy non-adherent (n = 36, 18%) and adherent patients (n = 162, 82%), there was no demographic or histopathological differences; the rates of disease recurrence, progression and cancer-specific mortality were 15 (41.7%) versus 68 (42.2%), p = 0.58; 12 (33.3%) versus 28 (17.9%), p = 0.014 and 4 (11.1%) versus 19 (11.7%), p = 0.98, respectively. Cystoscopy non-adherence was associated with an inferior number of urinary cytology (p
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