Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8771597 | The Journal of Urology | 2018 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Patients who traveled farther for bladder cancer treatment did not experience inferior survival outcomes and traveling to academic institutions was associated with reduced mortality. For patients who undergo cystectomy this relationship was equivocal, although longer distance was associated with receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy or surgery at a high volume facility. These findings may reflect a complex association of regionalization of bladder cancer care with patient individual health and health care seeking behavior.
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Authors
Stephen Ryan, Emily C. Serrell, Patrick Karabon, Gregory Mills, Moritz Hansen, Matthew Hayn, Mani Menon, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Firas Abdollah, Jesse D. Sammon,