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Cancer Immunotherapy (Bladder Cancer)

BCG Therapy After Radiation Is Effective

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 12th, 1999

Intravesical Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy after radiation is useful for the treatment of bladder cancer.

J. Palou and colleagues from the University Autonoma Barcelona, Spain, evaluated the effectiveness and tolerance of endovesical BCG after pelvic radiation therapy for bladder cancer in patients with recurrence as carcinoma in situ (CIS) and/or high-grade superficial bladder cancer ("Intravesical Bacille Calmette-Guerin in the Treatment of Carcinoma In Situ or High-Grade Superficial Bladder Carcinoma after Radiotherapy for Bladder Carcinoma," BJU International, 1999;83(4):429-431).

"In a prospective study, 13 patients were treated with...

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