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e. not TURBT), pathological grade, stage, presence/absence of DM in the specimen and surveillance outcome. The WHO (1973) grading system and Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) TNM 1978 classifications were used. Surgeons performing TURBT were either consultants or senior registrars. Intravesical chemotherapy after surgery and early re-TURBT for high-risk NMIBC (or when DM was absent) were not standard http://www.selleckchem.com/products/MK-1775.html treatment in this cohort. All patients had their first check cystoscopy under a general anaesthetic at 3 months because flexible cystoscopy became available to the institution only in 1986 [9]. This WGH cohort was used to analyse the association between tumour features, DM status and RRFFC. The ARI cohort consisted of patients identified retrospectively from medical records and the pathology database of patients undergoing TURBT for all new bladder tumours diagnosed in 2005 and 2006 at the ARI, a regional tertiary referral centre in Scotland, UK. Patients with new NMIBC were included in the analysis. As data was retrieved retrospectively, we decided only to obtain information on completeness of resection (or if only biopsy was taken), operating surgeon, tumour grade, stage, presence/absence of DM and the RRFFC. Mitomycin-C was given routinely within 24?h of TURBT unless contraindicated by bleeding or possible perforation, in which case, http://www.selleckchem.com/products/AZD6244.html when indicated by tumour features, a 6-week course of Mitomycin-C after discharge was given. Almost all patients had their first check cystoscopy under a local anaesthetic at 3 months with recurrences confirmed by subsequent biopsy/resection, and early re-TURBT was performed by senior surgeons for high grade or pT1 NMIBC within 6 weeks of initial TURBT. The ARI cohort was used to analyse the association between surgeon category, DM status and RRFFC. The inclusion criteria were: new NMIBC deemed to have been completely resected by the operating surgeon and the use of white-light cystoscopy and standard resection equipment. All patients underwent standard TURBT (en bloc resection for small tumours and fragmented resection for larger tumours). For accurate staging, it is standard practice in both participating centres to attempt to obtain http://www.selleck.cn/products/azd4547.html DM in all resections, regardless of tumour appearance, at the time of TURBT. Exclusion criteria are listed in the Appendix?1. Urology trainees on the East of Scotland Training Programme, which includes WGH and ARI, begin resecting bladder tumours under supervision in the first year of training. Trainees in years five and six would achieve competency in independent TURBTs (having performed >100 TURBTs) and therefore receive minimal supervision during these procedures. For the purposes of the present study, and to be consistent with the previous study [8], surgeons were stratified into seniors (consultants and urology specialist trainees with ��5 years of training) and juniors (urology specialist trainees with