Gender disparities in hematuria evaluation and bladder cancer diagnosis: a population based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Men are diagnosed with bladder cancer at 3 times the rate of women. However, women present with advanced disease and have poorer survival, suggesting delays in bladder cancer diagnosis. Hematuria is the presenting symptom in most cases. We assessed gender differences in hematuria evaluation in older adults with bladder cancer.

Materials and methods

Using the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) cancer registry linked with Medicare claims we identified Medicare beneficiaries 66 years old or older diagnosed with bladder cancer between 2000 and 2007 with a claim for hematuria in the year before diagnosis. We examined the impact of gender, and demographic and clinical factors on time from initial hematuria claim to urology visit and on time from initial hema

SUBMITTER: Garg T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4260395 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature