BMC Research Notes (Dec 2017)

Clinical interval and diagnostic characteristics in a cohort of bladder cancer patients in Spain: a multicenter observational study

  • Xavier Bonfill,
  • María José Martinez-Zapata,
  • Robin W. M. Vernooij,
  • María José Sánchez,
  • María Morales Suárez-Varela,
  • Javier De la Cruz,
  • José Ignacio Emparanza,
  • Montserrat Ferrer,
  • José Ignacio Pijoan,
  • Joan Palou,
  • Stefanie Schmidt,
  • Eva Madrid,
  • Víctor Abraira,
  • Javier Zamora,
  • on behalf of the EMPARO-CU study group

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-3024-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Abstract Objective We performed a cohort study in seven hospitals in Spain to determine the clinical characteristics of incident patients with bladder cancer, the diagnostic process, and the conditions that might affect health care interval times. Results 314 patients with bladder cancer were included, 70.3 (Standard Deviation [SD] 11.2) years old and 85.0% male. Clinical stage was T1 in 45.9% of patients. The median interval time between first consultation and diagnosis was of 104.0 days (Inter quartile range [IQR]:112.0; range from 0 to 986), being shorter for those patients who attended a hospital for their first consultation. The median interval time between diagnosis and first treatment was of 0.0 days (IQR: 0.0; range from 0 to 366), being longer when the patient had a pathologic tumor stage ≥ T2a.

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