Patients choose certainty over burden in bladder cancer surveillance
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Comparison of surveillance strategies for low-risk bladder cancer patients.
OBJECTIVE Low-grade noninvasive disease comprises approximately half of incident bladder cancer cases. These lesions have exceedingly low rates of progression to aggressive, muscle-invasive bladder cancer, and there is salient discordance with regard to management recommendations for these patients between the principal clinical practice guidelines. In this context, we compare the international...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Urology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0724-4983,1433-8726
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-019-02728-4