Pathologic downstaging is a surrogate marker for efficacy and increased survival following neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive urothelial bladder cancer.

Rosenblatt R, Sherif A, Rintala E, Wahlqvist R, Ullén A, Nilsson S, Malmström PU; Nordic Urothelial Cancer Group.

Eur Urol. 2012 Jun;61(6):1229-38. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.12.010. Epub 2011 Dec 13. PMID: 22189383

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is superior to a combination of epirubicin and interferon-alpha2b in the intravesical treatment of patients with stage T1 urinary bladder cancer. A prospective, randomized, Nordic study.

Duchek M, Johansson R, Jahnson S, Mestad O, Hellström P, Hellsten S, Malmström PU; Members of the Urothelial Cancer Group of the Nordic Association of Urology.

Eur Urol. 2010 Jan;57(1):25-31. Epub 2009 Oct 6.PMID: 19819617

Neoadjuvant cisplatinum based combination chemotherapy in patients with invasive bladder cancer: a combined analysis of two Nordic studies.

Sherif A, Holmberg L, Rintala E, Mestad O, Nilsson J, Nilsson S, Malmström PU; Nordic Urothelial Cancer Group.

Eur Urol. 2004 Mar;45(3):297-303.PMID: 15036674

Alternating mitomycin C and BCG instillations versus BCG alone in treatment of carcinoma in situ of the urinary bladder: a nordic study.

Kaasinen E, Wijkström H, Malmström PU, Hellsten S, Duchek M, Mestad O, Rintala E; Nordic Urothelial Cancer Group.

Eur Urol. 2003 Jun;43(6):637-45.PMID: 12767365

Neoadjuvant cisplatin-methotrexate chemotherapy for invasive bladder cancer -- Nordic cystectomy trial 2.

Sherif A, Rintala E, Mestad O, Nilsson J, Holmberg L, Nilsson S, Malmström PU; Nordic Urothelial Cancer Group.

Scand J Urol Nephrol. 2002;36(6):419-25.PMID: 12623505

The Nordic experience of cooperative urinary bladder cancer trials.

Malmström PU, Rintala E, Hellsten S.

Semin Urol Oncol. 2001 Feb;19(1):69-70.PMID: 11246738

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Nordic prospective trials of radical cystectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The Nordic Cooperative Bladder Cancer Study Group.

Hellsten S, Rintala E, Wahlqvist R, Malmström PU.

Eur Urol. 1998;33 Suppl 4:35-8.  PMID: 9615209

Five-year followup of a prospective trial of radical cystectomy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy: Nordic Cystectomy Trial I. The Nordic Cooperative Bladder Cancer Study Group.

Malmström PU, Rintala E, Wahlqvist R, Hellström P, Hellsten S, Hannisdal E.

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