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Investigators at University of Montreal Discuss Research in Bladder Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 20th, 2012

2012 MAR 20 -- In this recent study, researchers in Montreal, Canada conducted a study "To employ decision curve analysis to determine the impact of nuclear matrix protein 22 (NMP22) on clinical decision making in the detection of bladder cancer using data from a prospective trial. The study included 1303 patients at risk for bladder cancer who underwent cystoscopy, urine cytology and measurement of urinary NMP22 levels."

"We constructed several prediction models to estimate risk of bladder cancer. The base model was generated using patient characteristics (age, gender, race, smoking and haematuria); cytology and NMP22 were added to the base model to...

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