Highlights

Friday, 3 February 2012- It was well known that FL-guided TURBT could reduce the residual rate of NMIBC, but a systematic review conducted by P. Shen and colleagues suggested that it was not superior to conventional WL-guided...

Monday, 30 January 2012- Radical cystectomy (RC) with pelvic lymph node dissection (LND) is the standard of care for refractory non-muscle-invasive and muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Although consensus exists on the need for...

Thursday, 19 January 2012- Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. The discovery, which in...

Friday, 13 January 2012- Bladder cancer, most frequently caused by smoking and exposure to carcinogens in the workplace, is one of the top 10 most common forms of cancer in men and women in the US. More than 70% of bladder...

Wednesday, 11 January 2012- Inhibitor of differentiation or DNA binding -1 (Id-1) has been shown to be increased in several types of advanced cancer, and to be associated with aggressive and metastatic abilities of cancer cells....

Friday, 6 January 2012- Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of...

Thursday, 5 January 2012- O. Yeshchina and colleagues conducted a study to compare the outcomes of patients treated in the perioperative setting with methotrexate, vinblastine, adriamycin, and cisplatin (MVAC) versus gemcitabine...

Friday, 30 December 2011-    Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) has been widely pursued as an oncology target because it is overexpressed in several human tumor types. To investigate whether Plk1 plays a general role in...

Thursday, 15 December 2011- M. De Santis and colleagues conducted the first randomised phase II/III trial comparing two carboplatin-based chemotherapy regimens in patients with urothelial cancer who are ineligible (“unfit”) for...

Monday, 5 December 2011- A group of Japanese researchers conducted a study to examine the incidence of and the risk factors for upper urinary tract recurrence in patients undergoing a radical cystectomy for bladder cancer, and to...