Therapeutic outcome of fluorescence cystoscopy guided transurethral resection in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 9; p. e74142
• Main Authors: Yuan, Haichao, Qiu, Jianguo, Liu, Liangren, Zheng, Shuo, Yang, Lu, Liu, Zhenghua, Pu, Chunxiao, Li, Jinhong, Wei, Qiang, Han, Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 13.09.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Aged; Analysis; Bladder; Bladder cancer; Cancer; Carcinoma in Situ - mortality; Carcinoma in Situ - pathology; Carcinoma in Situ - surgery; Care and treatment; Clinical trials; Cystoscopy; Cystoscopy - methods; Databases, Bibliographic; Disease Progression; Female; Fluorescence; Hospitals; Humans; Identification methods; Invasiveness; Light; Male; Medical research; Meta-analysis; Muscles; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - mortality; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - pathology; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - surgery; Patient outcomes; Patients; Political aspects; Quality; Randomization; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Statistical analysis; Statistical significance; Studies; Surgery; Surgery, Computer-Assisted; Survival Analysis; Systematic review; Treatment Outcome; Tumors; Urinary bladder; Urinary Bladder - pathology; Urinary Bladder - surgery; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - mortality; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - pathology; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - surgery; Urology; White light; China
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074142

To conduct a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to assess the therapeutic outcome of fluorescence cystoscopy (FC) guided transurethral resection (TUR) in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Relevant RCTs were identified from electronic database (MEDLINE, Embase and the Cochrane Library). The proceedings of relevant congress were also searched. The primary parameters were recurrence rate, the time to fist recurrence, recurrence free survival rate (RFS) and progression rate. 12 RCTs including 2258 patients, which were identified for analysis in our study. Our study showed that the FC group have lower recurrence rate than the white light cystoscopy (WLC) group with statistically significant difference (OR: 0.5; p<0.00001). The time of the FC group first recurrence delayed significantly 7.39 weeks than WLC group (MD: 7.39 weeks; p<0.0001). There was a statistically significant difference in favor of FC in RFS at 1 yr (HR: 0.69; p<0.00001) and 2 yrs (HR: 0.65; p=0.0004). However, the FC group cannot significantly reduce the rate of progression into muscle invasive bladder cancer compared with the WLC group (OR: 0.85; p=0.39). FC guided TUR was demonstrated to be an effective procedure for delaying recurrence of NMIBC. Unfortunately, FC guided TUR could not significantly decrease the rate of progression into muscle invasive bladder cancer.