Study Results
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
10 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2009-09-30
2010-09-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Guidelines include cystoscopy and cytology/urine study every three months for the first 2 years and then every 6 months for the next 2 years, with the cycle being reset with every recurrence.
Urine cytology currently considered the gold standard for urine tests has many pros and cons. The points that keep it in use include: its high specificity, the ability to detect upper tract occurrence, and the ability to monitor the small population of those with bladder cancer whose disease becomes more aggressive. Opponents to cytology refer to the fact that is has low sensitivity that it is fairly subjective and that newer markers in comparison are improved.
There are multiple journal article which document the performance of cytology and the newer markers, the new markers versus cytology and then the performance of cytology in tandem with these new markers. The bottom line that is often overlooked is that cytology is expensive and each of the newer markers are at least as expensive as cytology. With the fact that a person who is diagnosed with non invasive bladder cancer can have up to 13 urine cytology's in 5 years without any recurrence we believe newer rational recommendations need to be made in regards to urine studies and bladder cancer follow up.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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CASE_CONTROL
RETROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Bladder cancer patients
Bladder cancer patients from one Beaumont Urologist.
No interventions assigned to this group
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
* Patients who received outside nephrectomy or cystectomy without pathology available.
* Those who had recurrence without cytology results available.
* Those who were followed by Dr Hollander and another urologist in which records are missing for a significant number of follow ups.
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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William Beaumont Hospitals
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Joseph Mashni, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Beaumont Hospitals
Other Identifiers
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2009-144
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id