key articles
Gemcitabine holds promise for BCG failures in BCa patients
Monday, 1 March 2010- Gemcitabine might be a second-line treatment option for patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (BC) who fail therapy with bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), according to Italian...
Edited by: ES
No link found between low-level arsenic exposure and bladder cancer
Tuesday, 2 February 2010- Arsenic in drinking water has been linked with the risk of urinary bladder cancer, but the dose–response relationships for arsenic exposures below 100 ?g/L remain equivocal. J. Meliker and colleagues...
Edited by: JV
Predicting disease progression in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
Wednesday, 27 January 2010- The S100 calcium binding protein A8 (S100A8) has been implicated as a prognostic indicator in several types of cancer. However, previous studies are limited in their ability to predict the clinical...
Edited by: JV
Androgen receptor: a potential therapeutic target in bladder cancer
Monday, 25 January 2010- A group of researchers in China investigated whether androgen receptor (AR) could serve as a potential molecular target for the treatment of bladder cancer. Ji-Tao Wua and colleagues published their...
Edited by: JV
Robotic cystectomy linked to reduced morbidity in BCa treatment
Wednesday, 20 January 2010- Patients undergoing robotic cystectomy experienced fewer postoperative complications than those undergoing open cystectomy, according to the results of a study conducted by a group from Weill Cornell...
Edited by: ES
Study describes new technique for mapping primary lymphatic landing sites
Wednesday, 20 January 2010- Multimodality SPECT/CT plus intraoperative gamma probe appear to be more efficient in mapping the primary lymphatic landing sites of the bladder than pelvic lymph node dissection, according to a new...
Edited by: ES
Minerals, vitamin intake and bladder cancer risk
Wednesday, 13 January 2010- Although the effect of fruit and vegetables on the risk of bladder cancer has been widely studied, little is known about their micronutrient components.
M. Brinkman and colleagues investigated the...
Edited by: JV
Bladder preservation in elderly patients with invasive bladder cancer
Friday, 1 January 2010- Researchers in Austria analysed the mortality and morbidity of octogenarians with newly diagnosed invasive transitional cell cancer (TCC) of the bladder who were managed without cystectomy.
C....
Edited by: JV
Bias in detecting bladder cancer recurrence assessed
Wednesday, 30 December 2009- Patients with bladder cancer and a positive urine test result are more likely to have a recurrence detected by cystoscopy if the urologist is aware of the positive result, according to a study in the...
Edited by: ES
Total cystectomy vs bladder preservation therapy for locally invasive bladder cancer
Wednesday, 9 December 2009- A group of Japanese researchers examined the usefulness of balloon-occluded arterial infusion (BOAI) of anticancer agent (cisplatin/gemcitabine), concomitant with hemodialysis, which delivers an...
Edited by: JV
