Contemporary analysis of the effect of marital status on survival in upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients treated with radical nephroureterectomy: A population-based study

CONCLUSION: Unmarried status is a marker of worse survival in both males and females and should be flagged as an important risk factor at diagnosis, in both sexes. In consequence, unmarried patients represent candidate for interventions aimed at decreasing the survival gap relative to married counterparts.PMID:34092481 | DOI:10.1016/j.urolonc.2021.04.040

Source: Urologic Oncology - June 7, 2021 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Claudia Coll à Ruvolo Luigi Nocera Franziska L Stolzenbach Mike Wenzel Christoph W ürnschimmel Ferdinando Fusco Alessandro Palmieri Zhe Tian Shahrokh F Shariat Fred Saad Alberto Briganti Ciro Imbimbo Vincenzo Mirone Pierre I Karakiewicz Source Type: research