Female Gender and Carcinoma In Situ in the Prostatic Urethra Are Prognostic Factors for Recurrence, Progression, and Disease-Specific Mortality in T1G3 Bladder Cancer Patients Treated With Bacillus Calmette-Gu茅rin

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• 作者：Joan Palou^a ; ^{jpalou@fundacio-puigvert.es} ; Richard J. Sylvester^b ; Oscar Rodrí ; guez Faba^a ; Rubé ; n Parada^a ; Juan A. Peñ ; a^a ; Ferran Algaba^c ; Humberto Villavicencio^a
• 关键词：Bacillus Calmette-Guè ; rin ; Bladder carcinoma ; Disease progression ; T1G3 urothelial cancer
• 刊名：European Urology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：289_03022838
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：62
• 期：1
• 页码：118-125
• 文件大小：426 K

摘要

Background

Controversy exists over the most important prognostic factors in T1 high-grade non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients treated with bacillus Calmette-Gu茅rin (BCG).

Objective

Evaluate prognostic factors for recurrence, progression, and disease-specific mortality after adjuvant intravesical BCG immunotherapy in patients with T1G3 NMIBC and long-term follow-up.

Design, setting, and participants

A single-institution retrospective analysis of 146 patients with primary stage T1G3 NMIBC.

Intervention

All patients were treated with complete transurethral resection (TUR) plus multiple bladder biopsies that included the prostatic urethra. No second TUR was done. Patients underwent an induction course of intravesical BCG (Connaught strain, 81 mg) without maintenance therapy.

Measurements

The variables analysed for time to recurrence, progression, and death due to bladder cancer (BCa) were gender, age, tumour multiplicity, diameter, aspect, substaging, concomitant carcinoma in situ (CIS), and CIS in the prostatic urethra. Cox regression models were used to assess the univariate and multivariate prognostic importance of these factors and estimate hazard ratios (HRs). Time-to-event distributions were estimated using cumulative incidence functions.

Results and limitations

The median follow-up was 8.7 yr. Sixty-five patients (44.5%) had recurrence, 25 patients (17.1%) had progression, and 18 patients (12.3%) died because of BCa. Female gender and presence of CIS in the prostatic urethra were associated with an increased risk of recurrence (p = 0.0003, HR: 2.53), progression (p = 0.001, HR: 3.59), and death due to BCa (p = 0.004, HR: 3.53).

Conclusions

In primary T1G3 bladder tumours treated with induction BCG, female gender or having CIS in the prostatic urethra were the only prognostic factors for time to recurrence, progression, and disease-related mortality. It is very important to perform a biopsy of the prostatic urethra in patients with primary high-grade NMIBC as a first step to obtain this prognostic information.