Christel Häggström, Oskar Hagberg, Truls Gårdmark, Firas Aljabery, Viveka Ströck, Abolfazl Hosseini, Amir Sherif, Per-Uno Malmstrom, Karin Söderkvist, Anders Ullén, Tomas Jerlström, Staffan Jahnson, Fredrik Liedberg, Lars Holmberg
PURPOSE: We constructed Bladder Cancer Data Base Sweden (BladderBaSe) 2.0 to expand studies in BladderBaSe on incidence, treatment outcomes, side effects, survival and health economic aspects of men and women with cancer in the urinary bladder, upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) (renal pelvis and ureter) and urethral carcinoma. PARTICIPANTS: BladderBaSe 2.0 includes 53 298 patients with cancer in the urinary bladder, diagnosed from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2019, and 961 patients with UTUC in the renal pelvis and 792 in the ureter, and 146 patients with urethral urothelial carcinoma, diagnosed from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2019, and in total 275 816 participants in reference groups, free of cancer in the urinary tract, matched 1:5 on sex, age and county...
December 20, 2022: BMJ Open