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Introduction: We hypothesized that among non-organ-confined (NOC, T3-4 and/or N1-3) non-urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder (non-UCUB) patients, bladder-sparing non-surgical management (NSM) provides cancer-specific mortality (CSM) rates comparable to those of radical cystectomy (RC).
Methods: Within the SEER database (2004-2021) rates of NSM vs. RC use in NOC non-UCUB patients were tabulated. Nearest-neighbor 1:1 propensity score matching (PSM) for age, sex, stage, race/ethnicity, and histological subtype was applied. Cumulative incidence plots depicted five-year CSM. Univariable and multivariable competing risks regression (CRR) models were fitted. Sensitivity analyses were performed within squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), small cell carcinoma (small-CC) and adenocarcinoma (ADK).
Results: Of 775 NOC non-UCUB patients, 290 (37.4%) received NSM vs. 485 (62.6%) RC. After PSM, five-year CSM rate was 70.4% after NSM vs. 60.6% after RC and NSM was associated with 1.6-fold higher CSM relative to RC (multivariable HR [mHR]: 1.61, p < 0.001). In sensitivity analyses within 253 (32.6%) SCC, after re-applying PSM, five-year CSM rate was 85.0% after NSM vs. 53.3% after RC and NSM was associated with 2.8-fold higher CSM relative to RC (mHR: 2.80, p < 0.001). Conversely, within 216 (27.9%) small-CC and 135 (17.4%) ADK patients, CSM after NSM did not differ from CSM after RC (54.3 vs. 62.5%, mHR: 0.85; 69.8 vs. 71.7%, mHR: 1.0; all p > 0.05).
Conclusion: In NOC non-UCUB patients, NSM is associated with higher CSM than RC. Subgroup analyses according to histological subtypes suggest that these differences virtually exclusively originated from SCC patients but not from their small-CC and ADK counterparts.
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J Surg Oncol
July 2025
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Introduction: We hypothesized that, within organ-confined (OC, T2N0M0) non-urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder (non-UCUB) patients, trimodal therapy (TMT) use does not differ from radical cystectomy (RC) regarding cancer control outcomes.
Methods: Within the SEER database (2004-2021), rates of TMT versus RC use in OC non-UCUB patients were calculated. Nearest-neighbor 1:1 propensity score matching (PSM) for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and histological subtype was applied.
Int Urol Nephrol
May 2025
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Introduction: We hypothesized that among non-organ-confined (NOC, T3-4 and/or N1-3) non-urothelial carcinoma of urinary bladder (non-UCUB) patients, bladder-sparing non-surgical management (NSM) provides cancer-specific mortality (CSM) rates comparable to those of radical cystectomy (RC).
Methods: Within the SEER database (2004-2021) rates of NSM vs. RC use in NOC non-UCUB patients were tabulated.
BJU Int
August 2025
Division of Experimental Oncology/Unit of Urology, URI, Urological Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of discordant histological diagnoses between transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT) and radical cystectomy (RC) on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) in patients with bladder cancer (BCa).
Patients And Methods: We relied on a multi-institutional database collecting data of patients with BCa who underwent TURBT and subsequent RC from nine centres between 2000 and 2023. We tested concordance rates between TURBT and RC in detecting urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (UCUB) as well as non-UCUB hystological subtypes, using RC as the reference standard.
Int J Cancer
November 2024
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
The overall survival (OS) improvement after the advent of several novel systemic therapies, designed for treatment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (mUCUB), is not conclusively studied in either contemporary UCUB patients and/or non-UCUB patients. Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database, contemporary (2017-2020) and historical (2000-2016) systemic therapy-exposed metastatic UCUB and, subsequently, non-UCUB patients were identified. Separate Kaplan-Meier and multivariable Cox regression (CRM) analyses first addressed OS in mUCUB and, subsequently, in metastatic non-UCUB (mn-UCUB).
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October 2024
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Objective: To address cancer-specific mortality free-survival (CSM-FS) differences in patients with urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (UCUB) vs non-UCUB who underwent trimodal therapy (TMT), according to organ confined (OC: T2N0M0) vs non-organ confined (NOC: T3-4NanyM0 or TanyN1-3M0) clinical stages.
Patients And Methods: Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (2004-2020), we identified patients with cT2-T4N0-N3M0 bladder cancer treated with TMT, defined as the combination of transurethral resection of bladder tumour, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Temporal trends described TMT use over time.