Table 4 Initial treatment pattern for MIUBC patients in routine clinical practice.

From: PD-L1 expression and its correlation with tumor biomarkers in Chinese urothelial bladder cancer

Variable

Total

(N = 229)

n (%)

Systemic/intravesical therapy

50 (21.8)

Therapy type (not mutually exclusive)

50

 Systemic therapy

29 (58.0)

Intravesical therapy

26 (52.0)

Treatment status (not mutually exclusive)

50 (21.8)

Neo-adjuvant

5 (10.0)

PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors

2 (40.0)

Chemotherapy

5 (100.0)

Adjuvant

11 (22)

Pd-1/Pd-L1 inhibitors

7 (63.6)

Chemotherapy

9 (81.8)

Other (unknown)

1 (9.1)

Medication therapy alone (not combined with surgery)

14 (28)

PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors

6 (42.9)

Chemotherapy

12 (85.7)

Intravesical chemotherapy

26 (52)

Epirubicin/pirarubicin

9 (34.6)

BCG vaccine

2 (7.7)

Gemcitabine

8 (30.8)

Lobaplatin

14 (53.8)

Any cystectomy or transurethral bladder resection for previous and planned surgery

226

Transurethral bladder resection only, no partial or radical cystectomy

33 (14.6)

Partial cystectomy, with/without transurethral bladder resection

5 (2.2)

Radical cystectomy, with/without transurethral bladder resection

185 (81.9)

Partial and radical cystectomy, with/without transurethral bladder resection

3 (1.3)

  1. The initial treatment pattern is defined as the pattern of treatment at baseline visit.
  2. N, number of subjects in the analysis population; n, number of subjects in the specified category; PD-1, programmed cell death protein 1, PD-L1, programmed cell death protein death ligand 1.