RESULTS
A total of 245 patients were included to the study. There were 208 (84.9%) male and 37 (15.1%) female patients with the male to female ratio of 5.6:1. The mean age of the study population was 63.6±9.9 years. The mean ages of the male and female patients were 64.2±9.4 and 60.6±10.5, respectively (p=0.047). There were 28 (11.4%) patients who had MIBC at the time of diagnosis. The demographic and pathologic properties of the patients with NMIBC were shown at Table 1. The mean follow-up period was 37.3±27.8 months (7-143 months).
TABLE 1 The demographic and pathologic characteristics of the non-muscle invasive bladder cancer patients according to smoking status