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. 2026 Jan 11;44(1):82.
doi: 10.1007/s00345-025-06179-y.

Real-world outcomes of bladder-sparing strategies for BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a multicenter study

Pietro Scilipoti  1   2 , Paolo Zaurito  1   2 , Mattia Longoni  1   2 , Giovanni Tremolada  1   2 , Andrea Cosenza  1   2 , Aleksander Ślusarczyk  3 , Pierre Etienne Gabriel  4 , Daniele Dutto  5 , Olga Katzendorn  6 , Wojciech Krajewski  7 , Ekaterina Laukhtina  8 , Katharina Oberneder  8 , José Luis Rodríguez Elena  9 , Javier Aranda  9 , Alfonso Lafuente Puentedura  10 , Jorge Caño Velasco  11 , Roberto Contieri  12 , Rodolfo Hurle  12 , José Daniel Subiela  13 , Ana Fernández  13 , Gautier Marcq  14 , Aleksandra Szostek  14 , Riccardo Mastroianni  15 , Giuseppe Simone  15 , Renate Pichler  16 , Mario Álvarez-Maestro  17 , Alfredo Aguilera Bazán  17 , Tobias Klatte  18   19 , Albane Massiet du Biest  4 , Valentina Ferrando  20 , Oscar Buisan  20 , Angela Villares López  21 , Michele Zazzara  22 , Giuseppe Mario Ludovico  22 , Roberto Carando  23   24   25 , Piotr Radziszewski  3 , Francesco Soria  5 , Benjamin Pradere  6 , David D'Andrea  8 , Shahrokh F Shariat  8   26   27   28   29 , Francesco Montorsi  1   2 , Andrea Salonia  1   2 , Alberto Briganti  1   2 , Paolo Gontero  5 , Evanguelos Xylinas  4 , Marco Moschini  30   31 ; European Association of Urology -Young Academic Urologists (EAU-YAU); Urothelial carcinoma working group; EuroGemDoce Study Group Collaborators
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Real-world outcomes of bladder-sparing strategies for BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a multicenter study

Pietro Scilipoti et al. World J Urol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: BCG-unresponsive; Bacillus Calmette-Guerin; Bladder-sparing therapy; EMDA; Gemcitabine and Docetaxel; Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer; Oncological outcomes; Survival.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no competing interests. Ethical approval: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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