Immunostimulation in the Urinary Bladder by Local Application of Nocardia rubra Cell-Wall Skeletons (Rubratin) and Bacillus Calmette-Guérin as Therapy for Superficial Bladder Cancer: A Comparative Study
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- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (Supplement) , S109-S114
- https://doi.org/10.1086/314062
Abstract
Twelve patients with superficial bladder cancer were treated with intravesical instillations of Rubratin (ASTA Pharma AG, Frankfurt, Germany), a cellKeywords
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