| アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: Pre-existing concurrent medical conditions (multimorbidity) complicate cancer diagnosis when they provide plausible diagnostic alternatives for cancer symptoms. AIM: To investigate associations in bladder cancer between: first, pre-existing condition count and advanced-stage diagnosis; and, second, comorbidities that share symptoms with bladder cancer and advanced-stage diagnosis. DESIGN AND SETTING: This observational UK cohort study was set in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink with Public Health England National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service linkage. METHOD: Included participants were aged >/=40 years with an incident diagnosis of bladder cancer between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2015, and primary care records of attendance for haematuria, dysuria, or abdominal mass in the year before diagnosis. Stage at diagnosis (stage 1 or 2 versus stage 3 or 4) was the outcome variable. Putative explanatory variables using logistic regression were examined, including patient-level count of pre-existing conditions and 'alternative-explanations', indicating whether pre-existing condition(s) were plausible diagnostic alternatives for the index cancer symptom. RESULTS: In total, 1468 patients (76.4% male) were studied, of which 399 (35.6%) males and 217 (62.5%) females had alternative explanations for their index cancer symptom, the most common being urinary tract infection with haematuria. Females were more likely than males to be diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.62; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.20 to 2.18; P = 0.001). Alternative explanations were strongly associated with advanced-stage diagnosis in both sexes (aOR 1.69; 95% CI = 1.20 to 2.39; P = 0.003). CONCLUSION: Alternative explanations were associated with advanced-stage diagnosis of bladder cancer. Females were more likely than males to be diagnosed with advanced-stage disease, but the effect was not driven entirely by alternative explanations. |
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| ジャーナル名 | The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners |
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| Pubmed追加日 | 2020/7/15 |
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| 投稿者 | Carney, Madeline; Quiroga, Myra; Mounce, Luke; Shephard, Elizabeth; Hamilton, Willie; Price, Sarah |
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| 組織名 | University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Florida, FL, US.;College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32661011/ |
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