Diagnostic significance of the urinary markers for surveillance of bladder cancer when including a 12-months follow-up period.

a<p>Some urine samples provided inconclusive results for some markers.</p>b<p>Mann-Whitney <i>U</i> test.</p><p>Diagnostic significance of the urinary markers <i>EOMES</i>, <i>HOXA9</i>, <i>POU4F2</i>, <i>TWIST1, VIM,</i> and <i>ZNF154</i>, when comparing urine samples from patients with NMIBC to urine samples from bladder cancer patients with no recurrence and using DNA collected at control visits in patients with a methylation positive first tumor. Tumors diagnosed during a 12 month follow-up period were included. Histology was used as the gold standard for the diagnosis of bladder tumors.