Water as a tumoricidal agent in bladder cancer. In vitro studies in parental and resistant cell lines.

doi:10.1159/000019790

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Water as a tumoricidal agent in bladder cancer. In vitro studies in parental and resistant cell lines.

European urology - 1 Dec 1998

Solomon L Z, Birch B R, Cooper A J

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OBJECTIVE: Water is widely used as a tumoricidal agent during transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT). Despite this, recurrences are common. One possible explanation may be that while the parental bladder cancer cells are sensitive to water, their multidrug resistant (MDR) clones which...

Topics

Antineoplastic Agents
Carcinoma, Transitional Cell
Cell Aggregation
Clone Cells
Drug Resistance, Multiple
Humans
Microscopy, Confocal
Phenotype
Tumor Cells, Cultured
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
Water

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