Discriminators of mouse bladder response to intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
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BCG Prevention of the Recurrence of Bladder Cancers Prevention of the Recurrence of Superficial Bladder Cancers: Intravesical Instillation of Bacillus Calmette-guerin Versus Bacillus Calmette-guerin Plus Epirubicin
Purpose The short-term effects of intravesical chemoimmunotherapy with epirubicin and Bacillus CalmetteGuerin (BCG) administered repeatedlly for prophylaxis of recurrence of superficial bladder cancer (pTa, pT1) were investigated in 22 patients with a median of 70 years between March, 1995 and February, 1999, and were compared with those of BCG monotherapy in 50 patients between March, 1995 and...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Immunology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2172
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-8-6