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ABSTRACT: Purpose
Our goal was to determine the association between biochemically verified post-diagnosis smoking exposure and nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) recurrence risk.Materials and methods
We conducted a prospective study of 354 NMIBC patients with a smoking history undergoing care between 2015 and 2018. Patients contributed at least 2 biospecimens during followup which were tested for cotinine to determine biochemically verified post-diagnosis smoking exposure (yes/no). Our primary endpoint was time to first recurrence after study start date. We examined whether post-diagnosis smoking exposure was associated with recurrence risk in multivariable Cox proportional hazards models that accounted for demographics, clinicopathological variables, time since diagnosis and pack-years.Results
Patients were predominantly White, male and had a median age of 68 years. Most patients had Ta disease (62%) and tumors of high grade (68%). Intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin was given to 63% of the cohort. Patients were followed for a median of 3.6 years since study start. Post-diagnosis smoking exposure was detected in 22% of patients, and 38.7% (137) of patients experienced a recurrence during followup. In multivariable models, only bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment and prior recurrence rate were significantly associated with recurrence. There was no association between post-diagnosis smoking exposure and recurrence risk (HR: 0.73, 95% CI: 0.45-1.20).Conclusions
In a cohort of patients with predominantly high risk NMIBC, post-diagnosis smoking exposure was not associated with NMIBC recurrence. However, smoking cessation support remains a critical component of cancer care given that the benefits of quitting extend far beyond NMIBC recurrence.
SUBMITTER: Furberg H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9472323 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Furberg Helena H Petruzella Stacey S Whiting Karissa K Stein Emily E Orlow Irene I Kenney Jessica J Corrales-Guerrero Sergio S Benfante Nicole N Cha Eugene K EK Donahue Timothy F TF Donat Sherri M SM Herr Harry W HW Matulewicz Richard S RS Pietzak Eugene E Dalbagni Guido G Ostroff Jamie J Bochner Bernard H BH
The Journal of urology 20220127 6
<h4>Purpose</h4>Our goal was to determine the association between biochemically verified post-diagnosis smoking exposure and nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) recurrence risk.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>We conducted a prospective study of 354 NMIBC patients with a smoking history undergoing care between 2015 and 2018. Patients contributed at least 2 biospecimens during followup which were tested for cotinine to determine biochemically verified post-diagnosis smoking exposure (yes/no). ...[more]