Predictive Biomarkers of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy Response in Bladder Cancer: Where Are We Now?

The most effective therapeutic option for managing nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), over the last 30 years, consists of intravesical instillations with the attenuated strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (the BCG vaccine). This has been performed as an adjuvant therapeutic to transurethral res...

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Main Authors: Luís Lima, Mário Dinis-Ribeiro, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Lúcio Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Advances in Urology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/232609