Intake of synthetic versus natural folate and clinical outcomes in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Bladder cancer
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 600
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with outlying (i.e., outside the interval delimited by the 25th percentile minus 1.5 times the interquartile range and the 75th percentile plus 1.5 times the interquartile range) or implausible (i.e., <500 kcal/d or >5,000 kcal/d) energy intakes.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Tumor recurrence was defined as a newly found bladder tumor during follow-up, and progression was defined as the transition from non-muscle-invasive to invasive or metastatic disease during follow-up.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Stratified associations by treatments. Folate intake and five tumor characteristics at diagnosis: focality, size, grade, stage, and concomitant carcinoma in situ.