Table 1.
Baseline demographic details and tumor characteristics of patients treated with adjuvant Hyperthermic Intra-VEsical Chemotherapy with mitomycin and intravesical Bacillus Calmette–Guerin (Moscow I strain) for nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer
HIVEC (n=22) | BCG (n=29) | P | |
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Age (median, range) | 62 (4382) | 61 (3880) | 0.419 |
Gender (n, %) | |||
Male | 20 (91) | 25 (86) | 0.476 |
Female | 2 (9) | 4 (14) | |
T-stage (n, %) | |||
Ta | 10 (45.5) | 10 (34.50 | 0.315 |
T1 | 8 (36.4) | 14 (48.3) | |
T1+CIS | 3 (13.6) | 2 (6.9) | |
Ta+CIS | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0) | |
CIS only | 0 (0) | 3 (10.3) | |
Tumor grade (n, %) | |||
Low grade | 12 (54.5) | 16 (55.2) | 0.964 |
High grade | 10 (45.5) | 13 (44.8) | |
Single or multiple tumors | |||
Single | 11 (50) | 16 (55) | 0.591 |
Multiple (≥2) | 11 (50) | 13 (45) | |
Risk group (EORTC) | |||
Intermediate risk | 12 (54.5) | 17 (58.6) | 0.784 |
High risk | 10 (45.5) | 12 (41.4) |
HIVEC: Hyperthermic Intra-VEsical Chemotherapy, BCG: Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, EORTC: European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer