Simone Morra, Lukas Scheipner, Andrea Baudo, Letizia Maria Ippolita Jannello, Mario de Angelis, Carolin Siech, Jordan A Goyal, Nawar Touma, Zhe Tian, Fred Saad, Gianluigi Califano, Giuseppe Celentano, Roberto la Rocca, Luigi Napolitano, Shahrokh F Shariat, Sascha Ahyai, Luca Carmignani, Ottavio de Cobelli, Gennaro Musi, Alberto Briganti, Felix K H Chun, Nicola Longo, Pierre I Karakiewicz
BACKGROUND: Unmarried status has been associated with advanced stage at presentation and lower treatment dose intensification rates in several urological and non-urological malignancies. However, no previous investigators focused of the association of unmarried status with locally advanced stage (T3-4 N0-2 ) at presentation and lower bi-/trimodal therapy rates in primary urethral carcinoma (PUC) patients. To address these knowledge gaps, we relied on the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database...
February 5, 2024: Urologic Oncology