The difficulty of studying the association between pathway delays and survival in cancer: an example from bladder cancerShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Scandinavian journal of urology, ISSN 2168-1805, E-ISSN 2168-1813, Vol. 59, p. 181-184Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]
It is postulated that delaying surgery negatively impacts survival in bladder cancer (BCa) [1]. European Urology (EAU) guidelines recommend that radical cystectomy (RC) should be performed within 3 months after diagnosis in patients not given neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).
We investigated the effect of the total time from referral to treatment on survival whilst also considering time from referral to diagnosis and from diagnosis to treatment to explore possible differences in impact of selection bias in patients with BCa treated with RC.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Medical Journals Sweden, 2024. Vol. 59, p. 181-184
Keywords [en]
bladder cancer, radical cystectomy, treatment, delay, survival
National Category
Clinical Medicine
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-231655DOI: 10.2340/sju.v59.42176ISI: 001347069600001PubMedID: 39474666Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85208162532OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-231655DiVA, id: diva2:1914103
2024-11-182024-11-182025-02-18Bibliographically approved