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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2026

Hyperthermic Intravesical Chemotherapy as a Bladder-Sparing Alternative to BCG in the Management of Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Systematic Review of Oncological Outcomes in the Era of BCG Shortage.

Alexei Croitor, Victor Cadariu-Brailoiu, Andrei-Dan Zbircea, Razvan Bardan, Vlad Dema, Sorin Dema, Alis Dema, Alin Cumpanas

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alexei CroitorDepartment XV, Discipline of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
Victor Cadariu-BrailoiuDepartment XV, Discipline of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
Andrei-Dan ZbirceaDepartment XV, Discipline of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
Razvan BardanDepartment XV, Discipline of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
Vlad DemaDepartment XV, Discipline of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.ORCID 0009-0008-0140-701X
Sorin DemaOncology and Radiotherapy Department, Municipal Emergency Clinical Hospital, 300254 Timisoara, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-6877-3718
Alis DemaDepartment of Microscopic Morphology-Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
Alin CumpanasDepartment XV, Discipline of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, "Victor Babes" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Bacillus Calmette–GuérinBCG shortagebladder preservationchemohyperthermiahyperthermic intravesical chemotherapymitomycin Cnon-muscle-invasive bladder cancerrecurrence-free survival

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PMID42652756
PMCPMC13513012

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