title: [Clinical investigation of grade-up superficial bladder cancer].
abstract: Between January 1977 and December 1993, 249 patients with grade 1 or grade 2 superficial bladder cancer were initially treated at Yokohama City University Hospital. Eighty-six patients (33%) had recurrent tumors after initial resection, and sixteen recurrent cases were so-called grade-up tumors that is, grade 3 originating from grade 1 or grade 2 tumor. The morphology of the grade-up tumors mostly showed non-papillary and invasive type. Positivity for urinary cytology of grade-up tumors was 88%. The five-year survival rate of the patients with grade-up tumors was 85% after initial resection of grade-up patients and 48% after treatment of grade-up tumors. The five-year survival rate of the patients with grade-up tumors who were treated by total cystectomy was 72%, whereas that in the patients who were treated by bladder preservation therapy showed a 13% five-year survival rate and all of the six patients died of cancer during the six-year follow-up period. These findings suggest that patients who have grade up tumors should be treated by radical treatment with radical cystectomy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*