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22/Apr/2025
22/Apr/2025
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2025AO0851
Highlights ■ Men with metastatic prostate cancer in the public system have access to fewer treatment lines. ■ Survival in the public system was 3 years shorter than that in the private setting (78 versus 115 months). ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the impact of assistance from public and private health systems on the overall survival of patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Methods: A total of 213 patients with metastatic prostate cancer treated at the A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, either in […]
Keywords: Brazil; Health Services; Health systems; Neoplasm metastasis; Private sector; Prostatic neoplasms; Public sector; Race factors; Social determinants of health; Survival analysis
01/Oct/2010
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082010AO1751
ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the association between smoking habits and outcome of patients with superficial bladder cancer. Methods: A retrospective study was performed evaluating 99 patients (67.0 ± 13.2 years, ranging from 31.4-93.4 years, 72.7% males and 27.3% females) treated at our institution with non muscle-invasive bladder cancer, between 1994 and 2000, with a mean follow-up of 49.3 months (range 4.0-177.9 months). Patients were divided according to smoking status, and the main measured outcome was progression to invasive disease. Additional […]
Keywords: Carcinoma, transitional cell; Neoplasm recurrence, local; Smoking; Smoking cessation; Survival analysis; Urinary bladder