Partitioning of time trends in prevalence and mortality of bladder cancer in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of incidence, stage-specific relative survival, and stage ascertainment to changes in bladder cancer (BC) prevalence and incidence-based mortality.

Methods

Partitioning of prevalence and incidence-based mortality trends into their epidemiologic components.

Results

BC prevalence estimated from our model increased but at monotonically decreasing rates until 2007, after which it decreased again. The main forces underlying observed trends in BC prevalence were relative BC survival, which improved throughout the period, and BC incidence, which increased at a decreasing rate until 2005 and declined thereafter. Mortality of persons ever diagnosed with BC increased at an increasing rate until 1997, increa

SUBMITTER: Akushevich I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7385284 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature