PURPOSE: To test for survival differences in metastatic urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (mUCUB) patients, according to years of diagnosis, age, sex, and race/ethnicity over time and for the effect of chemotherapy on overall mortality (OM). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (2000-2016), we identified 6860 mUCUB patients. Of those, 3,249 were exposed to chemotherapy. Kaplan-Meier plots and Cox regression models focused on OM. First, we tested the effect of years of diagnosis (historical [2000-2005] vs. intermediate [2006-2011] vs. contemporary [2012-2016]) in chemotherapy exposed mUCUB patients. Second, we tested the effect of chemotherapy in all mUCUB patients. RESULTS: In chemotherapy exposed mUCUB patients according to historical vs. intermediate vs. contemporary years, median overall survival was 11 vs. 13 vs. 14 months respectively, which translated into hazard ratios (HR) of 0.86 (P = 0.005) and 0.75 (P < 0.001) in intermediate and contemporary vs. historical, respectively. Subgroup analyses in <70 years old, males and Caucasians were in agreement regarding statistically significant differences between historical vs. intermediate vs. contemporary, respectively. In multivariable Cox regression models fitted in the entire mUCUB cohort, chemotherapy exposure reduced OM (HR: 0.46; P < 0.001). Virtually the same results were recorded in age, sex, and race/ethnicity subgroups analyses. CONCLUSIONS: Contemporary chemotherapy exposed mUCUB patients exhibited better survival than their historical and intermediate counterparts. Chemotherapy reduced mortality by half, across all patient types.

Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit Division of Urology University of Montréal Health Center Montréal Québec Canada

Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit Division of Urology University of Montréal Health Center Montréal Québec Canada; Department of Maternal Child and Urological Sciences Sapienza University Rome Policlinico Umberto 1 Hospital Rome Italy

Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit Division of Urology University of Montréal Health Center Montréal Québec Canada; Department of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences University of Genova Genova Italy

Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit Division of Urology University of Montréal Health Center Montréal Québec Canada; Department of Urology University Hospital Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main Germany

Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit Division of Urology University of Montréal Health Center Montréal Québec Canada; Martini Klinik Prostate Cancer Center University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf Hamburg Germany

Department of Maternal Child and Urological Sciences Sapienza University Rome Policlinico Umberto 1 Hospital Rome Italy

Department of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences University of Genova Genova Italy

Department of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology URI Urological Research Institute IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan Italy

Department of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology URI Urological Research Institute IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute Milan Italy; Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit Division of Urology University of Montréal Health Center Montréal Québec Canada

Department of Urology University Hospital Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main Germany

Departments of Urology Weill Cornell Medical College New York NY; Department of Urology University of Texas Southwestern Dallas TX; Department of Urology 2nd Faculty of Medicine Charles University Praga Czech Republic; Institute for Urology and Reproductive Health 1 M Sechenov 1st Moscow State Medical University Moscow Russia; Division of Urology Department of Special Surgery Jordan University Hospital The University of Jordan Amman Jordan; Department of Urology Comprehensive Cancer Center Medical University of Vienna Vienna Austria

Martini Klinik Prostate Cancer Center University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf Hamburg Germany

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