Laboratory indices and survival of urinary bladder cancer patients

Current laboratory techniques were used for evaluation of tumor markers, growth factors, angiogenesis, intercellular adhesion in biological fluids of 349 patients with nonmusculo-invasive urinary bladder cancer (264 patients had a single tumor and 285 presented with multiple tumor foci). An analysis was made of the correlation between four indices most closely related with the number of tumor foci in the bladder, and patient survival. The log-rank test found a correlation between the levels of UbC, sICAM, TPS, p185 in biological fluids, and survival (P