Research Article
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Improves the Immunosuppressive Microenvironment of Bladder Cancer and Increases the Sensitivity to Immune Checkpoint Blockade
Table 1
Characteristics of patients.
| Characteristic | Category | All case (%) | Sequencing cases (%) |
| Age | Median | 66 (50-80) | 66 (50-77) |
| Sex | Female | 3 | 0 (0) | Male | 21 | 9 (100) |
| Tumor status | T2 | 17 | 6 | T3 | 7 | 3 |
| Nodal status | Positive | 2 | 0 | Negative | 22 | 9 |
| AJCC stage | II | 16 | 7 | IIIA | 8 | 2 |
| Neoadjuvant chemotherapy | Albumin paclitaxel combined with cisplatin | 14 | 6 | Albumin paclitaxel combined with carboplatin | 10 | 3 |
| Frequency of chemotherapy | 2 cycles | 19 | 6 | 3 cycles | 1 | 2 | 4 cycles | 4 | 1 |
| ORR | CR | 2 | 1 | PR | 16 | 4 | SD | 5 | 4 | PD | 1 | 0 |
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