Active surveillance is a safe and cost-effective method to manage patients with recurrent papillary, low-grade, Ta bladder tumours. New long-term data from a large patient cohort confirm previous findings that emphasize the benefits of limiting the number of surgical procedures requiring anaesthesia and hospitalization in these, often elderly, patients.
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Soloway, M. Active surveillance for low-grade Ta bladder tumours. Nat Rev Urol 13, 303–304 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2016.35
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