Nomograms to predict overall and cancer-specific survival in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma: a large population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To develop and validate survival nomograms for predicting the overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) patients.

Method

Patients diagnosed with UTUC from 2010 to 2015 in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were retrospectively enrolled. Clinical characteristics and survival outcomes were respectively collected from the included patients. Then, eligible patients were divided into the training cohort and the validation cohort. Additionally, survival nomograms were developed based on the results of multivariate Cox analysis in the training cohort. Furthermore, Kaplan-Meier (KM) survival curves were generated to assess the actual effect of each variable. Lastly, the nomograms were v

SUBMITTER: Qi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7354328 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature