PRIMARY T1G3 BLADDER CANCER: ORGAN PRESERVING APPROACH OR IMMEDIATE CYSTECTOMY?

In this retrospective nonrandomized study we compared the long-term outcome in patients with newly diagnosed stage T1G3 bladder cancer treated with transurethral resection and bacillus Calmette-Guerin or immediate cystectomy.Of 121 patients with a median age of 67 years (range 36 to 88) diagnosed with primary T1G3 bladder cancer between 1976 and 1999, 92 were treated by transureteral resection with additional intravesical bacillus...