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SUBMITTER: Sonpavde GP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6814293 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sonpavde Guru P GP Mariani Luigi L Lo Vullo Salvatore S Raggi Daniele D Giannatempo Patrizia P Bamias Aristotle A Crabb Simon J SJ Bellmunt Joaquim J Yu Evan Y EY Niegisch Guenter G Vaishampayan Ulka N UN Theodore Christine C Berthold Dominik R DR Srinivas Sandy S Sridhar Srikala S SS Plimack Elizabeth R ER Rosenberg Jonathan E JE Powles Thomas T Galsky Matthew D MD Necchi Andrea A
The Journal of urology 20180904 6
<h4>Purpose</h4>We evaluated the impact of the number of cycles of platinum based, first line chemotherapy (fewer than 6 cycles vs the conventional 6 cycles or more) on the survival of patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>We used the RISC (Retrospective International Study of Invasive/Advanced Cancer of the Urothelium) database. The association of the number of cycles of chemotherapy with overall survival was investigated by Cox multiple regression analysis ...[more]