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- Aljabery, Firas, et al.
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Treatment and prognosis of bladder cancer patients with other primary cancers : A nationwide population-based study in the Bladder Cancer Data Base Sweden (BladderBaSe)
- 2020
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Ingår i: BJU International. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 1464-4096 .- 1464-410X. ; 126:5, s. 625-632
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: To study how patients with urinary bladder cancer (UBC) with previous or concomitant other primary cancers (OPCs) were treated, and to investigate their prognosis.Patients And Methods: Using nationwide population-based data in the Bladder Cancer Data Base Sweden (BladderBaSe), we analysed the probability of treatment with curative intent, and UBC-specific and overall survival (OS) in patients with UBC diagnosed in the period 1997-2014 with or without OPC. The analyses considered the patient's characteristics, UBC tumour stage at diagnosis, and site of OPC.Results: There were 38 689 patients, of which 9804 (25%) had OPCs. Those with synchronous OPCs more often had T2 and T3 tumours and clinically distant disease at diagnosis than those with UBC only. Patients with synchronous prostate cancer, female genital cancer and lower gastro-intestinal cancer were more often treated with curative intent than patients with UBC only. When models of survival were adjusted for age at diagnosis, marital status, education, year of diagnosis, Charlson Comorbidity Index and T-stage, UBC-specific survival was similar to patients with UBC only, but OS was lower for patients with synchronous OPC, explained mainly by deaths in OPC primaries with a bad prognosis.Conclusions: OPC is common in patients with UBC. Treatment for UBC, after or in conjunction with an OPC, should not be neglected and carries just as high a probability of success as treatment in patients with UBC only. The needs of patients with UBC and OPC, and optimisation of their treatment considering their complicated disease trajectory are important areas of research.
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- Jahnson, Staffan, et al.
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Thromboembolism in Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer : A Population-based Nationwide Study
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bladder Cancer. - : IOS Press. - 2352-3727 .- 2352-3735. ; 7:2, s. 161-171
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Routine VTE prophylaxis within 30 days of radical cystectomy (RC) for urinary bladder cancer (UBC) is used to protect from venous thromboembolism (VTE). However, randomized studies and nationwide population-based studies are lacking.OBJECTIVE: To study VTE and risk factors for VTE in muscle-invasive UBC in a nationwide population-based series, with a focus on the association with RC with and without chemotherapy.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied all patients with clinical stage T2-T4 UBC diagnosed 1997 to 2014 in the Bladder Cancer Data Base Sweden (BladderBaSe). Previous VTE events and risk factors for VTE were registered from 1987. Cox regression analyses and Kaplan-Meier curves were performed to study risk factors for VTE and cumulative incidence of VTE.RESULTS: In 9720 patients (71% males) with a median age of 74 years 546 (5.6%) had VTE after diagnosis. In Cox analyses controlling for patient's and tumour characteristics, and risk factors for VTE, VTE after diagnosis and first treatment date were associated with chemotherapy with or without RC. Cumulative incidence of VTE increased during 24 months after diagnosis and first treatment date. VTE were less common in patients with previous cardiovascular disease.CONCLUSION: VTE was commonly observed after 30 days from diagnosis and from first treatment date in patients with T2-T4 UBC, particularly after chemotherapy. The findings suggest that long-term intervention studies of benefit and possible harms of VTE prophylaxis after UBC should be undertaken.
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- Jerlström, Tomas, 1969-, et al.
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No increased risk of short-term complications after radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer among patients treated with preoperative chemotherapy : a nation-wide register-based study
- 2020
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Ingår i: World journal of urology. - : Springer. - 0724-4983 .- 1433-8726. ; 38:2, s. 381-388
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: Preoperative chemotherapy is underused in conjunction with radical cystectomy (RC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) due to concerns for complications and delay of surgery. Prospective data on short-term complications from population-based settings with frequent use of preoperative chemotherapy and standardised reporting of complications is lacking.METHODS: We identified 1,340 patients who underwent RC between 2011 and 2015 in Sweden due to MIBC according to the Swedish Cystectomy Register. These individuals were followed through linkages to several national registers. Propensity score adjusted logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for complications and death within 90 days of surgery, comparing patients receiving preoperative chemotherapy or not.RESULTS: Minimum two cycles of preoperative chemotherapy were given to 519 (39%) of the patients, who on average tended to be younger, have higher education, better physical status, and more advanced bladder cancer than patients not receiving chemotherapy. After adjusting for these and other parameters, there was no association between treatment with preoperative chemotherapy and short-term complications (OR 1.06 95% CI 0.82-1.39) or mortality (OR 0.75 95% CI 0.36-1.55). We observed a risk reduction for gastrointestinal complications among patients who received preoperative chemotherapy compared with those who did not (OR 0.49 95% CI 0.30-0.81).CONCLUSION: This nation-wide population-based observational study does not suggest that preoperative chemotherapy, in a setting with high utilisation of such treatment, is associated with an increased risk of short-term complications in MIBC patients treated with radical cystectomy.
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- Russell, Beth, et al.
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A mediation analysis to explain socio-economic differences in bladder cancer survival
- 2020
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Ingår i: Cancer Medicine. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2045-7634. ; 9:20, s. 7477-7487
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: This study aims to disentangle heterogeneity in the survival of bladder cancer (BC) patients of different socioeconomic status (SES) by identifying potential mediators of the relationship.Methods: The Bladder Cancer Database Sweden (BladderBaSe) was used to select patients diagnosed between 1997 and 2014 with Tis/Ta-T4 disease. The education level was used as a proxy for SES. Accelerated failure time models were used to investigate the association between SES and survival. Mediation analysis was used to investigate potential mediators of the association also accounting for interaction.Results: The study included 37 755 patients from the BladderBaSe. Patients diagnosed with both non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who had high SES were found to have increased overall and BC-specific survival, when compared to those with low SES. In the NMIBC patients, Charlson Comorbidity Index was found to mediate this relationship by 10% (percentage of the total effect explained by the mediator) and hospital type by 4%. The time from referral to TURBT was a considerable mediator (14%) in the MIBC patients only.Conclusions: Mediation analysis suggests that the association between SES and BC survival can be explained by several factors. The mediators identified were not, however, able to fully explain the theoretical causal pathway between SES and survival, therefore, future studies should also include the investigation of other possible mediators to help explain this relationship further. These results highlight the importance of standardization of clinical care across SES groups.
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- Russell, Beth, et al.
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Systematic review of the association between socioeconomic status and bladder cancer survival with hospital type, comorbidities, and treatment delay as mediators
- 2021
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Ingår i: BJUI Compass. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2688-4526. ; 2:3, s. 140-158
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- ObjectivesTo review the current evidence on the relationship between three proposed mediators (comorbidities, hospital type, and treatment delays) for the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and bladder cancer survival.Materials and methodsSix different searches using OVID (Medline and Embase) were carried out to collate information available between the proposed mediators with both SES and survival in bladder cancer. This systematic review was conducted according to a pre-defined protocol and in line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.ResultsA total of 49 studies were included in the review across the six searches (one appeared in two searches). There was a wealth of studies investigating the relationship between each of the proposed mediators with survival in bladder cancer patients. In general, a higher SES, lower comorbidities, and a larger hospital volume were all found to be associated with a decreased risk of death in bladder cancer patients. There was, however, a paucity of studies investigating the associations between these mediators and SES in bladder cancer patients.ConclusionsTo gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between SES and survival identified in several observational studies, further investigations into the relationship between the proposed mediators and SES are warranted. Moreover, modifiable mediators, eg, treatment delay, highlight the importance of the standardization of clinical care across SES groups for all bladder cancer patients.
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- Wang, Eugen Y-H, et al.
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Radical cystectomy compared to intravesical BCG immunotherapy for high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer - is there a long-term survival difference? : A Swedish nationwide analysis
- 2021
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Ingår i: Scandinavian journal of urology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2168-1805 .- 2168-1813. ; 55:1, s. 46-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES: High-risk non-muscle invasive urinary bladder cancer (NMIBC) presents an increased risk of progression and cancer death. To reduce these risks, two different treatments are recommended - BCG or radical cystectomy (RC). The purpose of this study is to analyze cancer-specific survival of these two initial treatments.MATERIALS AND METHODS: BladderBaSe links information from the SNRUBC from 1997 to 2014, with a number of national healthcare and demographic registers. BCG was used for 3,862 patients (399 had delayed RC), while 687 had initial RC. Propensity scores were used to match the patients treated with RC and with relevant variables such as age, gender, and tumor stage with the same number treated with BCG (673 each arm). In a further comparison, an instrumental variable analysis using hospital strategy as the instrument was used.RESULTS: The 5-year cancer-specific survival chance was higher for the BCG group than it was for the initial RC group, 87 vs 71%, respectively. In the population with propensity score matching, 78 died from cancer in the BCG group during follow-up and 162 in the RC group. In the instrumental variable analysis, the multivariate adjusted risk difference of cancer-specific death 2 years after diagnosis was 32 per 100 treated patients, in favor of the BCG group.CONCLUSIONS: BCG therapy had better cancer-specific survival than RC also when two different statistic methods were used to try to control for confounding. A prospective randomized trial will be necessary to rule out that selection is a major factor for the outcome.
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