Associations between external beam radiotherapy and overall survival in patients with gallbladder cancer: A population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of studies regarding radiotherapy (RT) in patients with gallbladder cancer (GBC) on the survival benefit after surgery and nonsurgical treatment. Therefore, this study evaluated the impact of external beam RT on the overall survival (OS) of patients with GBC in a real-world setting.

Methods

Patients with GBC enrolled from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database were examined through Kaplan-Meier survival curves and multivariable Cox regression analyses.

Results

A total of 7,866 patients with GBC were screened for the current analysis, of whom 2,130 (27.1%) did not undergo RT or surgery, 209 (2.7%) underwent RT, 4,511 (57.3%) underwent surgery, and 1,016 (12.9%) underwent both RT and surgery. The median OS times were 4

SUBMITTER: Song J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9614712 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature