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Intravesical instillation with mitomycin C and bacillus Calmette-Guérin in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (2026)

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Appendix 1

Search strategies

Database: EBM Reviews - Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials <May 2024>, EBM Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews <2005 to June 5, 2024>, Embase <1974 to 2024 June 11>, Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL <1946 to June 11, 2024>

Search Strategy:

  1. exp non muscle invasive bladder cancer/ (7303)
  2. exp bladder tumor/ or exp Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/ or exp bladder cancer/ or exp bladder carcinoma/ (179085)
  3. ((bladder or vesical) adj3 (cancer* or carcin* or malig* or tumor* or tumour* or neoplas* or papilloma)).tw,kw,kf. (170022)
  4. exp *transitional cell carcinoma/ (40606)
  5. or/2-4 (232514)
  6. ((non-muscle or nonmuscle or non muscle) adj3 invasive*).tw,kw,kw. (15590)
  7. exp carcinoma in situ/ (84704)
  8. ((urothelial or urothelium) adj3 (cancer or carcin* or neoplas* or tumor* or tumour* or maglin* or papilloma)).tw,kw,kf. (54480)
  9. ((low risk or superficial or early) adj3 (cancer or carcin* or neoplas* or tumor* or tumour* or maglin* or papilloma)).tw,kw,kf. (254674)
  10. (NMIBC or (non adj2 invasive) or “carcinoma in situ”).tw,kw,kf. (405724)
  11. ((Ta or T1 or TIS or Ta -T1 or G1 or G2 or G3 or G1-G2 or G1-2) adj3 (cancer or carcin* or neoplas* or tumor* or tumour* or maglin* or papilloma)).tw,kw,kf. (37244)
  12. ((low grade or high grade) adj3 (cancer or carcin* or neoplas* or tumor* or tumour* or maglin* or papilloma)).tw,kw,kf. (85415)
  13. or/6-12 (844890)
  14. 5 and 13 (76116)
  15. 1 or 14 (76900)
  16. exp Mitomycins/ (44744)
  17. exp Mitomycin/ (40205)
  18. exp mitomycin C/ (40205)
  19. mitomycin*.tw,kw,kf. (45047)
  20. exp BCG Vaccine/ (58396)
  21. (BCG or (bacillus adj2 calmette adj2 guerin)).tw,kw,kf. (64411)
  22. or/16-21 (150440)
  23. 15 and 22 (14130)
  24. exp bladder irrigation/ (2983)
  25. Therapeutic irrigation/ (35839)
  26. exp intravesical drug administration/ (8800)
  27. exp Administration, Intravesical/ (8800)
  28. (intravesical or instillat* or installation or irrigation or flushing).tw,kw,kf. (232492)
  29. or/24-28 (258409)
  30. 23 and 29 (10025)
  31. (bladder and (cancer* or carcinoma*) and (intravesical or instillation)).ti. (5342)
  32. 30 or 31 (11999)
  33. limit 32 to yr=”2014 -Current” (5765)
  34. (exp animals/ or exp animal/) not (humans/ or human/) (10644652)
  35. ((rat or rats or mice or mouse or swine or porcine or murine or sheep or lambs or pigs or piglets or rabbit or rabbits or cat or cats or dog or dogs or cattle or bovine or monkey or monkeys or trout or marmoset$1 or basic research or cell lines or in vitro or animal model or canine) not (human* or men or women or patients)). tw. (8197842)
  36. 33 not (34 or 35) (5496)
  37. (child/ or Pediatrics/ or Adolescent/ or Infant/ or adolescence/ or newborn/) not (adult/ or aged/) (4784488)
  38. ((baby or babies or child or children or pediatric* or paediatric* or peadiatric* or infant* or infancy or neonat* or newborn* or new born* or adolescen* or toddler*) not (adult* or elder* or senior* or men or women)).tw. (4721753)
  39. 36 not (37 or 38) (5466)
  40. (conference abstract or Conference Review).pt. (5195658)
  41. 39 not 40 (4238)
  42. note/ or editorial/ or letter/ or Comment/ or news/ or (note or editorial or letter or Comment or news).pt. (5648774)
  43. 41 not 42 (3963)
  44. case report/ or case reports/ or (case report or a case or a rare case).ti. (5915741)
  45. 43 not 44 (3457)
  46. limit 45 to dc=20141121-20240611 use oemezd [Limit not valid in CCTR,CDSR; records were retained] (1472)
  47. limit 45 to dd=20141121-20240611 use oemezd [Limit not valid in CCTR,CDSR,Ovid MEDLINE(R); records were retained] (164)
  48. limit 45 to ed=20141121-20240611 use medall [Limit not valid in CCTR,CDSR,Embase; records were retained] (1130)
  49. limit 45 to ez=20141121-20240611 use medall [Limit not valid in CCTR,CDSR,Embase; records were retained] (1357)
  50. limit 45 to dt=20141121-20240611 use medall [Limit not valid in CCTR,CDSR,Embase; records were retained] (1358)
  51. limit 45 to yr=”2014-2024” use cctr (463)
  52. limit 45 to yr=”2014 - 2024” use coch (5)
  53. 45 and (2015* or 2016* or 2017* or 2018* or 2018* or 2020* or 2021* or 2022* or 2023* or 2024*).ep. (1003)
  54. or/46-53 (3353)
  55. limit 54 to english language [Limit not valid in CDSR; records were retained] (3159)
  56. remove duplicates from 55 (1922)