Impact of Time-To-Surgery on the Prognosis of Patients with T1 Renal Cell Carcinoma: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During the COVID-19 pandemic, elective surgery has to undergo longer wait times, including nephrectomy for T1 renal cell carcinoma (RCC). This study aimed to investigate the time-to-surgery (TTS) of Chinese T1 RCC patients and its influencing factors, and to illustrate the impact of TTS on the prognosis of T1 RCC.

Methods

We retrospectively enrolled 762 Chinese patients with pathological T1 RCC that underwent nephrectomy. To discover the impact of TTS on survival outcomes, we explored the possible delay intervals by week using the Kaplan-Meier method and Log-rank test. Cox proportional hazard models with inverse probability-treatment weighting (IPTW) were used to assess the association between TTS and disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS).

Resul

SUBMITTER: Ou W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9786871 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature