Prognosis and risk factors of patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma and postoperative recurrence of bladder cancer in central China

• Published in: BMC urology Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 24 - 8
• Main Authors: Wang, Qingwei, Zhang, Tao, Wu, Junwei, Wen, Jianguo, Tao, Deshang, Wan, Tingxiang, Zhu, Wen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 18.04.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Acids; Age; Aged; Aristolochic acid; Asian medicine; Bladder cancer; Bladder cancer recurrence; Cancer metastasis; Cancer patients; Cancer recurrence; Carcinoma; Chemotherapy; China - epidemiology; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Health risk assessment; Humans; Laparoscopy; Lymph nodes; Lymphatic system; Male; Medical prognosis; Medical research; Metastases; Metastasis; Metformin; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - diagnosis; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - epidemiology; Ovarian cancer; Patients; Perfusion; Prognosis; Prognostic factor; Recurrence (Disease); Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; Risk factor; Risk Factors; Smoking; Statistical analysis; Surgery; Survival; Survival analysis; Survival Rate - trends; Systematic review; Traditional Chinese medicine; Tumors; Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma; Ureteral Neoplasms - diagnosis; Ureteral Neoplasms - epidemiology; Ureteroscopy; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - diagnosis; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - epidemiology; Urinary tract; Urogenital system; Urology; Urothelial carcinoma; Urothelium - pathology; China; Prognostic factor; Survival analysis; Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma; Bladder cancer recurrence; Risk factor

To investigate the prognostic risk factors and postoperative recurrence of bladder cancer in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas (UTUCs). Data of 439 UTUC patients were retrospectively analyzed. Follow-up and analysis of smoking effects, consumption of traditional Chinese medicin...