TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hemminki, Kari
AU  - Försti, Asta
AU  - Hemminki, Akseli
AU  - Ljungberg, Börje
AU  - Hemminki, Otto
TI  - Survival in bladder and upper urinary tract cancers in Finland and Sweden through 50 years.
JO  - PLOS ONE
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
SN  - 1932-6203
CY  - San Francisco, California, US
PB  - PLOS
M1  - DKFZ-2022-00012
SP  - e0261124 -
PY  - 2022
AB  - Survival has improved in bladder cancer but few studies have considered extended periods or covered populations for which medical care is essentially free of charge. We analyzed survival in urothelial cancer (UC, of which vast majority are bladder cancers) in Finland and Sweden over a 50-year period (1967-2016) using data from the NORDCAN database. Finland and Sweden are neighboring countries with largely similar health care systems but higher economic resources and health care expenditure in Sweden. We present results on 1- and 5-year relative survival rates, and additionally provide a novel measure, the difference between 1- and 5-year relative survival, indicating how well survival was maintained between these two periods. Over the 50-year period the median diagnostic age has increased by several years and the incidence in the very old patients has increased vastly. Relative 1- year survival rates increased until early 1990s in both countries, and with minor gains later reaching about 90
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:34982793
DO  - DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0261124
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/178362
ER  -