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Table 1 Cohort characteristics stratified by perioperative treatment

From: Continuous saline bladder irrigation for two hours following transurethral resection of bladder tumors in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer does not prevent recurrence or progression compared with intravesical Mitomycin-C

Variable

No treatment

MMC

CSBI

p-value

Total no. of patients

89

71

45

Age, mean (SD)

73.2 (11.2)

68.2 (12.3)

75.3 (8.9)

< 0.002+

Gender, n (%)

   

0.54

 Male

75 (84.3)

55 (77.5)

37 (83.2)

 

 Female

14 (15.7)

16 (22.5)

8 (17.8)

Grade, n (%)

   

0.9

 High

45 (50.6)

34 (47.9)

21 (46.7)

 

 Low

44 (49.4)

37 (52.1)

24 (53.3)

Stage, n (%)

   

0.03*

 Ta without CIS

55 (61.8)

41 (57.8)

30 (66.7)

 

 Ta with CIS

3 (3.4)

4 (5.6)

5 (11.1)

 T1 without CIS

13 (14.6)

18 (25.4)

5 (11.1)

 T1 with CIS

4 (4.5)

6 (8.5)

3 (6.7)

 CIS only

14 (15.7)

2 (2.8)

2 (4.4)

Tumor size, n (%)

   

0.12*

  < 0.5 cm

11 (12.36)

3 (4.2)

6 (13.3)

 

 0.5–2.0 cm

33 (37.1)

41 (57.8)

16 (35.6)

 2.0–5.0 cm

22 (24.7)

13 (18.3)

10 (22.2)

  > 5.0 cm

23 (25.8)

14 (19.7)

13 (28.9)

Multiple tumors, n (%)

47 (52.8)

36 (50.7)

22 (48.9)

0.91

Recurrent disease, n (%)

40 (45.0)

23 (32.4)

12 (26.7)

0.08

AUA Risk Stratification

   

0.72

 Low risk

10 (11.2)

6 (8.5)

7 (15.6)

 

 Intermediate risk

34 (38.2)

31 (43.7)

15 (33.3)

 High risk

45 (50.6)

34 (47.9)

23 (51.1)

Restaging resection, n (%)

8 (9.0)

18 (25.4)

10 (22.2)

0.02

Adjuvant therapy, n (%)

35 (39.3)

35 (49.3)

16 (35.6)

0.28

Follow-up in months, median [IQR]

14 [6–28]

23 [11–32]

13 [9–19]

< 0.01§

  1. MMC Mitomycin-C, CSBI continuous saline bladder irrigation, SD standard deviation, CIS carcinoma in situ. +One-way ANOVA. *Fisher’s exact test. §non-parametric equality of medians test