Research Article

Stepwise Application of Urine Markers to Detect Tumor Recurrence in Patients Undergoing Surveillance for Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

Total number of patients483
Median age (range)70 (31–94)
Gender (male/female)406/77
Tumor at time of urine marker sampling (%)128 (26.5)
 pTa (%)86 (67.2)
 pT1 (%)15 (11.7)
 ≥pT2 (%)14 (10.9)
 Pure Cis (%)13 (10.1)
 Concomitant Cis (%)8 (6.3)
 G1 (%)53 (42.4)
 G2 (%)38 (29.7)
 G3 (%) 25 (19.5)
Interval between last tumor and urine marker sampling (median, range; months)6 (2–94)