Impact of smoking status at diagnosis on disease recurrence and death in upper tract urothelial carcinoma

What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of urothelial carcinoma; however, the impact of smoking on outcomes after surgery for upper tract urothelial carcinoma is unknown. One study suggests that patients with a smoking history have an inc...

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Published in:	BJU international Vol. 111; no. 4; pp. 589 - 595
Main Authors:	Ehdaie, Behfar, Furberg, Helena, Zabor, Emily Craig, Ostroff, Jamie S., Shariat, Shahrokh F., Bochner, Bernard H., Coleman, Jonathan A., Dalbagni, Guido
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Wiley-Blackwell 01.04.2013
Subjects:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Biological and medical sciences Biopsy, Needle Carcinoma, Transitional Cell - diagnosis Carcinoma, Transitional Cell - mortality Carcinoma, Transitional Cell - surgery Cohort Studies Databases, Factual Disease-Free Survival Female Humans Immunohistochemistry Kaplan-Meier Estimate Kidney Neoplasms - diagnosis Kidney Neoplasms - mortality Kidney Neoplasms - surgery Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Multivariate Analysis Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - mortality Neoplasm Recurrence, Local - pathology nephrectomy Nephrectomy - methods Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases New York City outcome assessment prognosis Proportional Hazards Models Retrospective Studies Risk Assessment smoking Smoking - adverse effects Smoking Cessation - statistics & numerical data Survival Analysis tobacco Tobacco, tobacco smoking Toxicology Tumors of the urinary system Ureter - surgery Ureteral Neoplasms - diagnosis Ureteral Neoplasms - mortality Ureteral Neoplasms - surgery urinary bladder neoplasms Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - diagnosis Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - mortality Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - surgery Urinary tract. Prostate gland Urologic Neoplasms - diagnosis Urologic Neoplasms - mortality Urologic Neoplasms - surgery New York City Nephrology Relapse Prognosis Disease Tobacco smoking Urology Nephrectomy Urinary bladder Surgery smoking urinary bladder neoplasms outcome assessment Diagnosis Urinary system disease Mortality Urinary tract disease Malignant tumor Upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma Bladder tumor Tobacco Treatment Urinary system Death Bladder disease Cancer
ISSN:	1464-4096, 1464-410X, 1464-410X
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