Observational studyMedicine2018
The effect of marital status on the survival of patients with bladder urothelial carcinoma: A SEER database analysis.
Observational study in Medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Marital status and survival in cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Cancer medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Epidemiology and treatment patterns for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a systematic literature review and gap analysis.Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy · 2021Pooled it
- Oncological outcome and survival predictors of widowed patients with bladder cancer in special populations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Enhanced prognostic prediction of cancer-specific mortality in elderly bladder cancer patients post-radical cystectomy: an XGBoost model study.Translational cancer research · 2025Article
- Psychological Impact of Bladder Cancer: Insights from 219 Patients and Caregivers in Indonesia Using DASS-21 (2019-2023).Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Article
- Impact of rural location on receipt of standard of care treatment and survival for locally advanced bladder cancer in Louisiana.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- Surgical Methods and Social Factors Are Associated With Long-Term Survival in Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: Construction and Validation of a Prognostic Model Based on Machine Learning Algorithms.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Marital status, an independent predictor for survival of gastric neuroendocrine neoplasm patients: a SEER database analysis.BMC endocrine disorders · 2020Article
- Influence of marital status on overall survival in adult patients with chordoma: a SEER-based study.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2020Article
- Incidence and Risk Factors for Suicide Death among Kaposi's Sarcoma Patients: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Analysis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2020Article
- A Machine Learning Approach for Long-Term Prognosis of Bladder Cancer based on Clinical and Molecular Features.AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science · 2020Article
- Does Health Insurance Modify the Association Between Race and Cancer-Specific Survival in Patients with Urinary Bladder Malignancy in the U.S.?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Risk factors associated with suicide among kidney cancer patients: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis.Cancer medicine · 2019Article
- Bladder cancer in Saudi Arabia: a registry-based nationwide descriptive epidemiological and survival analysis.Annals of Saudi medicineArticle
- Marital status does not affect the cancer-specific survival of patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated with nephroureterectomy: a propensity score matching study.Therapeutic advances in urologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
To identify whether marital status is associated with survival in patients with bladder urothelial carcinoma (UC). Using Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results population-based data, 133,846 patients diagnosed with bladder UC between 1988 and 2009 were identified. Kaplan-Meier methods and multivariable Cox regression models were used for survival analyses and evaluation of the association between marital status and survival, after controlling for gender, age, race, primary site, tumor (topography), lymph node, metastasis stage, pathological grading, and surgery. Patients in the married group had a higher proportion of men within group comparisons, more often white, older, earlier clinical stage at diagnosis, surgical treatment, all of which were statistically significant (P < .001). Widowed patients had the worst bladder UC cause-specific survival (CSS) compared with married, never married, and so on groups classified by stage and grade. The 5-year CSS of widowed patients compared with that of married patients was, respectively, all (P < .001), 89.8% versus 95.8% at noninvasive papillary carcinoma stage, 84.1% versus 91.6% at occur in situ stage, 74.3% versus 86.1% at I stage, 41.2% versus 61.6% at II stage, 39.2 versus 52.5% at III stage, and 8.8% versus 17.0% at IV stage. Widowed patients tend to have a significantly higher risk of bladder-cancer-specific mortality. Marital status was relevant to improved CSS in patients with bladder UC.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.