Number of transurethral procedures after non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer and survival in causes other than bladder cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research has associated repeated transurethral procedures after a diagnosis of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with increased risk of death of causes other than bladder cancer.

Aim

We investigated the overall and disease-specific risk of death in patients with NMIBC compared to a background population sample.

Methods

We utilized the database BladderBaSe 2.0 containing tumor-specific, health-related and socio-demographic information for 38,547 patients with NMIBC not primarily treated with radical cystectomy and 192,733 individuals in a comparison cohort, matched on age, gender, and county of residence. The cohorts were compared using Kaplan-Meier curves and Hazard ratios (HR) from a Cox regression models. In the NMIBC cohort, we analyzed

SUBMITTER: Holmberg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9506622 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature