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INTRAVESICAL ANTITUMOR THERAPY IMMEDIATELY AFTER TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF BLADDER CANCER
Author(s) -
Fujita Kimio
Publication year - 1994
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/j.1442-2042.1994.tb00061.x
Subject(s) - medicine , urology , resection , bladder cancer , randomized controlled trial , urinary bladder , surgery , significant difference , cancer
Patients with superficial transitional cell cancer of the urinary bladder were entered into a randomized trial to compare the effects of immediate and short‐term postoperative instillation of peplomycin sulfate with simple irrigation. Although the recurrence‐free rate of the 46 peplomycin‐treated patients was lower, the difference was not significant. Repeated washing of the bladder at the end of transurethral resection might partly replace the role of cytotoxic therapy.