Cigarette smoking is associated with adverse pathological response and increased disease recurrence amongst patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical cystectomy: a single-centre experience.
Luca BoeriMatteo SoligoIgor FrankStephen A BoorjianRobert H ThompsonMatthew TollefsonFernando J QuevedoJohn C ChevilleRobert Jeffrey KarnesPublished in: BJU international (2019)
Cigarette smoking was significantly associated with adverse pathological response to cisplatin-based NAC in patients with MIBC treated with RC. Current smokers were at significantly higher risk of disease recurrence as compared to former and never smokers.