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Non‐muscle‐invasive bladder cancer surveillance for which cystoscopy is partly replaced by microsatellite analysis of urine: a cost‐effective alternative?
25 Dec 2008
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OBJECTIVE To determine how good microsatellite analysis (MA) markers in voided urine samples should be to make a surveillance procedure cost-effective in which cystoscopy is partly replaced by MA for patients with non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma (NMI-UC). PATIENTS AND METHODS We constructed a semi-Markov model with a time horizon of 2 years, and a man aged 65 years as reference case. Data were used from...
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