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SUBMITTER: Sanl? O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5687201 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Turkish journal of urology 20171201 4
Bladder cancer (BC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Despite, the majority of the cases were diagnosed as non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with favorable prognosis, it has tendency to recur or progress to a higher grade or stage. The first line treatment of patients with NMIBC is transurethral resection with adjuvant therapies primarily intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy. However, in a portion of patients whose BCG treatment failed ...[more]