Liang-Kang Huang, Yu-Ching Lin, Hai-Hua Chuang, Cheng-Keng Chuang, See-Tong Pang, Chun-Te Wu, Ying-Hsu Chang, Kai-Jie Yu, Po-Hung Lin, Hung-Cheng Kan, Yuan-Cheng Chu, Wei-Kang Hung, Ming-Li Hsieh, I-Hung Shao
INTRODUCTION: Body status, categorized as sarcopenia or obesity and assessed using body mass index and body composition, affects the outcome of bladder cancer patients. However, studies comparing disease progression, recurrence, or overall survival in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with different body compositions are lacking. Therefore, we conducted a retrospective study to identify the impact of body composition, sarcopenia, and obesity on the oncological prognosis of patients with NMIBC who underwent transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) intravesical instillation (IVI)...
2023: Frontiers in Oncology