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

aSome urine samples provided inconclusive results for some markers.bMann-Whitney U test.Diagnostic significance of the urinary markers EOMES, HOXA9, POU4F2, TWIST1, VIM, and ZNF154, 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.