NMIBC—BCG Strain and Outcomes

Authors :: Hanif Motiwala
Raj Persad
Sanchia S. Goonewardene
David Albala
Source :: Management of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer ISBN: 9783030286453
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Abstract: BCG is an immunotherapy. There are at least 4 different strains, Connaught, Pasteur, Tice, RIVM Whether the commonly used Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) strains Connaught and Tice confer different outcomes is questionable. This chapter covers BCG strains and outcomes.

Subjects :: Bacillus (shape)
biology
Strain (chemistry)
medicine.medical_treatment
medicine
Immunotherapy
biology.organism_classification
complex mixtures
humanities
Microbiology

ISBN :: 978-3-030-28645-3
ISBNs :: 9783030286453
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Management of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer ISBN: 9783030286453
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........28bf3ab959f63928b95391f91e82774c
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28646-0_31