“…Most of those observations (30/38) were terminated because of recurrence or additional growth, but all of the resected tumours were found to be pTa and Grade 1 or 2; there was no grade or stage progression. To date, eight studies on AS have been published [2,[5][6][7][8][9][10]20]. However, three of these were only abstracts presented at major urological meetings.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Table 2 summarises the main findings including the present series. The studies by Hernandez et al [8,21] and by de la Peña et al [9] follow the same series of patients over different time scales. Consequently, according to the current literature, the overall number of patients enrolled in AS programmes is 404.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The aim of AS for NMIBC is to reduce the number of TURBTs throughout the patients' lifetime, without compromising the possibility of intervention, when progression was observed. To date, only a few studies have reported results of AS for NMIBC and most of them have consisted of small case series with short follow-ups [5][6][7][8][9][10].…”
“…Most of those observations (30/38) were terminated because of recurrence or additional growth, but all of the resected tumours were found to be pTa and Grade 1 or 2; there was no grade or stage progression. To date, eight studies on AS have been published [2,[5][6][7][8][9][10]20]. However, three of these were only abstracts presented at major urological meetings.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Table 2 summarises the main findings including the present series. The studies by Hernandez et al [8,21] and by de la Peña et al [9] follow the same series of patients over different time scales. Consequently, according to the current literature, the overall number of patients enrolled in AS programmes is 404.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The aim of AS for NMIBC is to reduce the number of TURBTs throughout the patients' lifetime, without compromising the possibility of intervention, when progression was observed. To date, only a few studies have reported results of AS for NMIBC and most of them have consisted of small case series with short follow-ups [5][6][7][8][9][10].…”
Active surveillance might be a reasonable clinical and cost-effective strategy in patients who present with small, low grade pTa/pT1a recurrent papillary bladder tumors.
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