This was a multicenter, prospective, non-interventional, observational cohort study, and the enrolled patients were divided into four cohorts: cohort I was patients with high-risk upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) (pT3-4 or N+); cohort II was patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) (including low-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk/very-high-risk); cohort III was patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) to receive neoadjuvant therapy; and cohort IV was patients evaluated for complete response (CR) after standard trimodality therapy (TMT) treatment (i.e. patients with successful bladder preservation). Primary Objectives Cohorts I and IV: MRD score to assess the sensitivity and specificity of imaging recurrence/metastasis; Cohort II: MRD score to assess the sensitivity and specificity of tumor recurrence; Cohort III: MRD score to assess the sensitivity and specificity of tumor remnants. Secondary Objectives Cohorts I and IV: MRD score to assess the sensitivity and specificity of imaging recurrence subgroup and metastasis subgroup; Cohort II: MRD score to assess the sensitivity and specificity of different grades and stages of recurrent tumors; Cohort III: MRD scores to assess the sensitivity and specificity of different grades and stages of residual tumors.
patients ≥18 years of age with full civil capacity at the time of signing the informed consent form;
patients who provide a urine sample for MRD testing at the time of undergoing postoperative review;
Pathologic type: required to be a pathologically confirmed uroepithelial tumor with a predominantly urothelial tumor with a primary site in the upper urinary tract (including the renal pelvis and ureters), and permitted to contain no more than 50% squamous differentiation, adenomatous differentiation, or sarcomatoid differentiation and are pT3/4 or any TpN+.
Pathology after radical surgery that does not meet the criteria for enrollment;
Predictable inability to meet the criteria for regular review at our center within 1 year postoperatively;
Disagreement with regular cystoscopy and/or imaging (at least completion of one of CT or MR or PET/CT, with intervals between reviews as well as the specific items to be determined by the clinician);
Already definite recurrence or metastasis;