Incidental Diagnosis of Urothelial Bladder Cancer: Associations with Overall Survival.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated whether an incidental diagnosis (ID) of bladder cancer (BC) was associated with improved survival.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed data of consecutive patients with no prior diagnosis of urothelial cancer who underwent a primary transurethral resection of bladder tumor (pTURBT) between January 2013 and February 2021 and were subsequently diagnosed with urothelial BC. The type of diagnosis (incidental or non-incidental) was identified. Overall, relative, recurrence-free, and progression-free survival rates (OS, RS, RFS, and PFS) after pTURBT were evaluated using the Kaplan-Meier curves and long-rank tests. A multivariable Cox regression model for the overall mortality was developed.

Results

A total of 435 patients were enrolled. The media

SUBMITTER: Kamecki H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9913049 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature