Tratamento Adjuvante no Câncer Superficial de Bexiga / Adjuvant Treatment in Superficial Bladder Cancer

New treatment modalities in superficial bladder cancer

Adjuvant intravesical treatment with a standardized mistletoe extract to prevent recurrence of superficial urinary bladder cancer.

BACKGROUND Adjuvant intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) treatment after resection of non invasive superficial bladder cancer has been shown to significantly decrease tumor recurrence. However, the serious local and systemic side-effects of this treatment have promoted the use of other immunoactive substances, which, to date, have all failed to show efficacy equal to BCG therapy. PATIE...

Complications and treatment of superficial thrombophlebitis Complicações e tratamento da tromboflebite superficial

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1677-5449.20151401 Superficial thrombophlebitis (ST) of the lower limbs, also known as superficial venous thrombosis, is a condition in which there is a thrombus in the lumen of a superficial vein and an inflammatory reaction in the vessel wall and neighboring tissues. It presents as a palpable cord that is hard, hyperemic, hot and painful and follows the path of a sup...

Intravesical therapy in superficial bladder cancer.

OBJECTIVE To identify the appropriate characteristics of superficial bladder cancer that allow the physician to predict tumor behavior. METHODS We analyzed 1,745 patients with primary superficial bladder cancer with regard to disease and patient characteristics. RESULTS With the characteristics we found, the population can be described and prognostic factors can be found. Moreover, with the...

Molecular changes in superficial bladder cancer.

Urinary bladder cancers represent a spectrum of diseases that can be grouped into three general categories: superficial, invasive and metastasis. Each differs in clinical behavior, prognosis and primary management. For superficial tumors, the aim is to prevent recurrences and progression to an incurable stage, recognizing that surgical removal of the bladder (over treatment for most tumors) is ...