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SUBMITTER: Loras A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678457 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loras Alba A Martínez-Bisbal M Carmen MC Quintás Guillermo G Gil Salvador S Martínez-Máñez Ramón R Ruiz-Cerdá José Luis JL
Cancers 20190629 7
Patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) undergo lifelong monitoring based on repeated cystoscopy and urinary cytology due to the high recurrence rate of this tumor. Nevertheless, these techniques have some drawbacks, namely, low accuracy in detection of low-grade tumors, omission of pre-neoplastic lesions and carcinomas in situ (CIS), invasiveness, and high costs. This work aims to identify a urinary metabolomic signature of recurrence by proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (<sup> ...[more]