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Can daily intake of aspirin and/or statins influence the behavior of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer? A retrospective study on a cohort of patients undergoing transurethral bladder resection

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Title
Can daily intake of aspirin and/or statins influence the behavior of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer? A retrospective study on a cohort of patients undergoing transurethral bladder resection
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BMC Cancer, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12885-015-1152-x
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Antonio Luigi Pastore, Giovanni Palleschi, Andrea Fuschi, Luigi Silvestri, Yazan Al Salhi, Elisabetta Costantini, Alessandro Zucchi, Vincenzo Petrozza, Cosimo de Nunzio, Antonio Carbone

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the behavior of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in patients submitted to transurethral bladder resection (TURB) comparing subjects in chronic therapy with aspirin, statins, or both drugs to untreated ones. This retrospective study was conducted on 574 patients diagnosed with NMIBC who underwent TURB between March 2008 and April 2013. The study population was divided into two main groups: treated (aspirin and/or statins) and untreated. The treated group was further divided into three therapeutic subgroups: Group A (100 mg of aspirin, daily for at least two years); Group B (20 mg or more of statins, daily for at least two years); and Group C (100 mg of aspirin and 20 mg of statins together). The mean follow-up of patients was 45.06 months. No significant differences were observed among the different groups at baseline. On multivariate analysis, statin treatment, smokers and high stage disease (T1) achieved the level of independent risk factor for the occurrence of a recurrence. When patients were stratified according to the different treatment; patients treated with statins (Group B) presented an higher rate of failure (56/91 patients; 61.5%) when compared to Group A (42/98 patients; 42.9%), Group C (56/98; 57.1%) and (133/287 patients; 46.3%). This difference corresponds to a significant difference in recurrence failure free survival (p = 0.01). Our results suggest that long-term treatment with aspirin in patients with NMIBC might play a role on reducing the risk of tumor recurrence. In contrast, in our investigation data from statins and combination treatment groups showed increased recurrence rates. A long-term randomized prospective study could definitively assess the possible role of this widely used drugs in NMIBC.

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Country Count As %
Chile 1 4%
Unknown 26 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 15%
Other 3 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 7 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 41%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 15%
Computer Science 1 4%
Physics and Astronomy 1 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 9 33%
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