Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-Cell Wall Skeleton as Immunotherapeutic Option for BCG-Refractory Superficial Bladder Cancer

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Infection Following Intravesical BCG Administration as Adjunctive Therapy For Bladder Cancer

Bacillus Calmette-Gu erin (BCG) is the most effective intravesical immunotherapy for superficial bladder cancer. Although generally well tolerated, BCG-related infectious complications may occur following instillation. Much of the current knowledge about this complication comes from single case reports, with heterogeneous diagnostic and therapeutic approaches and no investigation on risk factor...

Variability of Bcg Strains (bacillus Calmette-guérin)

Three different cultures of BCG propagated for over 2 years in a liquid medium containing Tween 80 and albumin were found to differ in several of their intrinsic properties. Cultures of the three strains were found to consist of morphologically heterogeneous populations-each culture being made up of three main colonial types-spreading, intermediate, and non-spreading. The percentage distributio...

Pricing and Reimbursement Analysis of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer.

RESULTS According to the European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) bladder preservation strategies available include: intravesical immunotherapy, intravesical chemotherapy, device-assisted therapy and combination therapy. In Serbia, there are three medicines listed for chemotherapy (doxorubicin, epirubicin and mitomycin) and one for intraves...

Systemic bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) activates natural suppressor cells.

Addition of normal C57BL/6 mouse bone marrow cells to an in vitro culture of normal C57BL/6 spleen cells and allogeneic P815-Y tumor cells inhibited the development of cell-mediated immunity. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) enhanced the suppressive activity of these bone marrow cells as early as 2 days after its intravenous administration to donor mice and elicited similar activity in the spleen...

BCG: who were Calmette and Guérin?