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- Ranti, Daniel, et al.
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Surveillance for Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer: Identifying the Point of Diminishing Returns
- 2023
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Ingår i: UROLOGY. - 0090-4295 .- 1527-9995. ; 181, s. 84-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE To characterize first and second recurrence patterns using 26 years of cohort-level follow-up and microsimulation modeling.METHODS Patients diagnosed with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer in Stockholm County between 1995 and 1996 were included. Clinical, pathological, and longitudinal follow-up data were gathered. Logistic regressions, Kaplan Meier curves, and Cox proportional hazards models were run to generate assumptions for a microsimulation model, simulating first and second recurrence and progression for 10,000 patients.RESULTS Three hundred eighty-six patients were included: 67.4% were male; > 50% were TaLG; and 37.5% were American Urological Association high-risk. Median time to recurrence was 300 days. Three patients had missing data. Cohort follow-up has been carried out for 26 years. For simulated firstrecurrences, low-risk patients recurred at 56.6% over 15 years of follow-up, with 2.2% muscleinvasive (MI) progression; intermediate-risk patients recurred at 62.8%, with 4.3% MI progression; high-risk patients recurred at 48.7% over 15 years, with MI progression at 14.3%. For second recurrences, 70.7%, 75.7%, and 84.7% of low, medium, and high-risk patients recurred. No patients were seen to have first recurrences after 9 years, with low, but notable, rates beyond 5 years.CONCLUSION These data suggest that low-, intermediate-, and high-risk patients without recurrence at 5 years may be potentially transitioned to less invasive monitoring.
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- Winer, Andrew G, et al.
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Prognostic value of lymph node yield during nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma.
- 2017
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Ingår i: Urologic oncology. - : Elsevier BV. - 1873-2496. ; 35:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lymph node dissection (LND) performed during radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) for upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) remains controversial and difficult to evaluate. The aim of this study was to investigate whether removal of more lymph nodes during RNU is safe and improves oncologic outcomes.We evaluated 422 patients who underwent RNU with concomitant LND for upper tract urothelial carcinoma between 1976 and 2015, assessing for an association between total nodes removed, recurrence-free survival, and cancer-specific survival using Cox proportional hazards models. We also investigated the relationship between nodal yield and perioperative metrics and intersurgeon variability using linear regression.In our cohort of 442 patients, 239 developed recurrences and 94 patients died of disease. Median follow-up among survivors was 3.7 years (interquartile range: 1.2, 7.4). The median nodal yield was 9 (interquartile range: 4, 16). Among patients with node-positive disease (pN1), we observed a significant improvement in recurrence-free survival (hazard ratio = 0.84 per 5 nodes removed, P = 0.039) and a nonsignificant improvement in cancer-specific survival with an increase in the nodal yield (hazard ratio = 0.90 per 5 nodes removed, P = 0.2). There was no evidence of an association between node yield and operative time, estimated blood loss, or 30-day complications on multivariable analysis. There was significant heterogeneity among surgeons regarding the extent of LND (P<0.0001).We found that a more extensive node dissection may improve oncologic outcomes in a subset of high-risk patients without significantly increasing operative time or serious complications. Additionally, we identified considerable intersurgeon heterogeneity regarding the extent of LND furthering the notion of surgeon variability as a nonstandardized factor.
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