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Essential content of evidence‐based clinical practice guidelines for bladder cancer: The Japanese Urological Association 2015 update
Author(s) -
Kubota Yoshinobu,
Nakaigawa Noboru
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/iju.13141
Subject(s) - medicine , bladder cancer , association (psychology) , clinical practice , evidence based medicine , urology , family medicine , gynecology , alternative medicine , cancer , pathology , philosophy , epistemology
The Japanese Urological Association revised the clinical practice guidelines for bladder cancer in April 2015. This was the first update carried out in the 6 years since the development of the initial clinical practice guidelines for bladder cancer in 2009. The descriptive content was revised, and additions were made with a focus on new‐found evidence and advances in the latest medical practices, and on the basis of the increasingly aging population observed in the underlying social context in Japan. An algorithm for the treatment of bladder cancer has been presented as a new trial. In the present article, we will introduce the essential contents and clinical questions that address the present revisions.