Marital Status and Prognostic Nomogram for Bladder Cancer With Distant Metastasis: A SEER-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate the impact of marital status on overall survival (OS) and create a prognostic nomogram predicting OS in distant-metastatic bladder cancer (DMBC) patients.

Methods

The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database was explored to recruit DMBC patients from 2010 to 2015. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to compare survival differences among different marital status. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to screen for prognostic factors and then constructed the nomogram based on Cox proportional hazard regression models. Calibration plot diagrams and concordance index (C-index) were used to verify the prognostic nomogram.

Results

Kaplan-Meier curves suggested the significant differences of OS among different marital

SUBMITTER: Tao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7654226 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature