Prognostic Significance of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer who Underwent Intravesical BCG Treatment

Abstract

Background; The ninth most prevalent cancer worldwide and the thirteenth major reason of cancer-related fatalities is urinary bladder cancer (BC), Aim and objectives; to evaluate the impact of pretreatment NLR as a clinical outcome predictor in patients with intravesical BCG-treated NMIBC, Subjects and methods; In the El-Hussein hospital and Kobry-Alkobba military hospital, 126 patients with NMIBC participated in this retrospective cohort research, Result; No substantial variation were found between cancer free patients and patients with recurrence at 1st follow up cystoscopy regarding tumor size (p>0.05). Tumor multiplicity showed substantial variation between the two groups as it was substantially greater in cases with recurrence (p