[Prognostic value of clinicopathologic factors in superficial bladder: a retrospective analysis of 59]

ABSTRACT

To study, through a series of superficial bladder tumors, the prognostic factors of recurrence and tumoral progression. this is a retrospective study of a series of 59 urothelial tumors of the bladder at stage pTa or pTl. The following parameters were considered age, sex, treatment, stage and grade. The chi square test was used in search of a correlation between the different parameters and the course [recurrence and progress] of the disease. A multivariate analysis was undertaken by integrating factors correlated with the course. Thirty two tumors [54%] had recurred versus 27 [46%] without recurrence. Light tumors [25%] progressed in grade and 4 [12,5%] had become infiltrative. Age beyond 65 years. tumoral size > 3 cm and rnultifocality were predictive factors of recurrence with a relative risks of 2.36, 3,28 and 3,88 respectively. In a multivariate analysis, these factors remained significant with adjusted relative risks respectively of 1,36, 1,6 and 1,7