Intravesical Epirubicin Plus BCG to Prevent the Recurrence of Transitional Cell Carcinoma of Bladder

Summary

Biochemotherapy (combined immunotherapeutic drugs and chemotherapeutic drugs) has shown virtue than that use chemical or biological drugs alone in the treatment of some malignant tumor. Here we investigated the efficacy of sequential intravesical therapy with EPI and BCG to EPI or BCG alone in patients with transitional cell carcinoma of bladder cancer after surgical management.

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Start

1996-06

Primary completion

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Completion

2003-07

Publications

• Background Calais da Silva F, Denis L, Bono A, Bollack C, Bouffioux C. Intravesical chemoresection with 4'-epi-doxorubicin in patients with superficial bladder tumors. Eur Urol. 1988;14(3):207-9. doi: 10.1159/000472938.
• Background Rintala E, Jauhiainen K, Rajala P, Ruutu M, Kaasinen E, Alfthan O. Alternating mitomycin C and bacillus Calmette-Guerin instillation therapy for carcinoma in situ of the bladder. The Finnbladder Group. J Urol. 1995 Dec;154(6):2050-3.

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