Kamat - Figure 19
Why Decision Timing is Important
FIG. 19: Another example of why decision timing is important is illustrated in this Figure, using the data on the CIS patients from the SWOG clinical trial reported in 2000.[14] Among the patients who had CIS and underwent 6 weeks of BCG induction before randomization to BCG maintenance or no maintenance therapy, one can see that at the first evaluation, the complete response (CR) rates were between 55% and 58%.
References
[14]
Lamm DL, Blumenstein BA, Crissman JD, et al. Maintenance bacillus Calmette-Guerin immunotherapy for recurrent TA, T1 and carcinoma in situ transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: a randomized Southwest Oncology Group Study. J Urol. 2000;163:1124−9 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(05)67707-5
