Late recurrence in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer after 5-year cancer-free periods.
Yurie HirataMadoka HiguchiTakahiro OsawaShiro HinotsuToru HarabayashiTango MochizukiNobuyasu EnamiOsamu NounakaYuichiro ShinnoHiroshi KikuchiRyuji MatsumotoTakashige AbeSachiyo MuraiNobuo ShinoharaPublished in: International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association (2022)
Late recurrence after a long tumor-free period is not rare and it was not predicted by current risk classification systems. Only prior history of bladder cancer was a significant predictor for late recurrence in this study.