Meta analysis of therapeutic efficacy of bladder-sparing treatment for NMIBC

Systemic REview of the Therapeutic Efficacy of Bladder-preserving Treatments for Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer Following Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, Eur Urol. 2020 Mar 3. pii: S0302-2838(20)30118-4. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.02.012.

https://www.europeanurology.com/article/S0302-2838(20)30118-4/fulltext

Statistical Analysis

R program and Rstudio are used to perform all reported analysis. Session informaion about R is as follows.

> sessionInfo()

R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.4

Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

Random number generation: RNG: Mersenne-Twister Normal: Inversion Sample: Rounding

locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
[7] base

other attached packages: [1] metafor_2.1-0 Matrix_1.2-17

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.6.1 htmltools_0.4.0 tools_3.6.1 meta_4.9-7
[5] yaml_2.2.0 Rcpp_1.0.2 rmarkdown_1.16 nlme_3.1-142
[9] grid_3.6.1 knitr_1.25 digest_0.6.22 xfun_0.10
[13] rlang_0.4.1 evaluate_0.14 lattice_0.20-38