ReviewFrontiers in surgery2022
A systematic review and meta-analysis on delaying surgery for urothelial carcinoma of bladder and upper tract urothelial carcinoma: Implications for the COVID19 pandemic and beyond.
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- Impact of Surgical Wait Time on Survival After Radical Cystectomy for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Cancer management and research · 2026Article
- Waiting time in diagnosis and extirpative surgery and association with survival and stage progression in upper tract urothelial carcinomas.BJUI compass · 2025Article
- Economic impact of reduced postoperative visits after inflatable penile prosthesis implantation.Journal of comparative effectiveness research · 2025Article
- Association between time to treatment and bladder cancer survival: a population-based analysis.Translational andrology and urology · 2024Article
- Focused UTUC pathways with a risk-stratified approach to diagnostic ureteroscopy: is it the need of the hour? A retrospective cohort analysis.World journal of urology · 2024Article
- Pandemic Stressors and Adaptive Responses: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Quality of Life and Psychosocial Dynamics among Urothelial Cancer Patients.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- A Retrospective Analysis of the Challenges of Urothelial Cancer Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic at a Single Academic Center in Romania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Can We Identify Patients in Danger of Delayed Treatment? Management of COVID-19 Pandemic Backlog in Urology Care in Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to competing strains on hospital resources and healthcare personnel. Patients with newly diagnosed invasive urothelial carcinomas of bladder (UCB) upper tract (UTUC) may experience delays to definitive radical cystectomy (RC) or radical nephro-ureterectomy (RNU) respectively. We evaluate the impact of delaying definitive surgery on survival outcomes for invasive UCB and UTUC. Methods: We searched for all studies investigating delayed urologic cancer surgery in Medline and Embase up to June 2020. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed. Results: We identified a total of 30 studies with 32,591 patients. Across 13 studies ( Conclusions: A delay from diagnosis of UCB or UTUC to definitive RC or RNU was associated with poorer survival outcomes. This was not the case for patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
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