We tested the effect of marital status on cytoreductive nephrectomy, metastasectomy, and systemic therapy rates, as well as on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) in patients with metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma (mccRCC).
Within the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database (2004-2015), we identified 6975 patients (4806 men and 2169 women) with metastatic clear cell renal carcinoma. Temporal trend analyses, logistic regression models, cumulative incidence plots, and competing-risk regression models were used.
Overall, 1450 men and 1018 women were unmarried (30.2% and 47.0%, respectively). In men, unmarried status was an independent predictor of lower cytoreductive nephrectomy rate (OR: 0.54), lower metastasectomy rate (OR: 0.70), and lower systemic therapy rate (OR: 0.70). Conversely, in women, unmarried status was an independent predictor of lower cytoreductive nephrectomy rate (OR: 0.63) and of lower systemic therapy rate (OR: 0.80), but not of lower metastasectomy rate (OR: 0.83; p = 0.12). In multivariable competing-risk regression analyses, unmarried status was an independent predictor of higher CSM in men (HR: 1.15), but not in women (HR 0.97, p = 0.6).
Unmarried men are at higher risk of not benefiting of cytoreductive nephrectomy, metastasectomy, or systemic therapy than their married counterparts. Unmarried women are at higher risk of not benefiting of cytoreductive nephrectomy or systemic therapy. These gender-related differences cumulate in higher CSM in unmarried men, but not in unmarried women.
International urology and nephrology. 2019 Aug 29 [Epub ahead of print]
Giuseppe Rosiello, Sophie Knipper, Carlotta Palumbo, Cristina Dzyuba-Negrean, Angela Pecoraro, Elio Mazzone, Francesco A Mistretta, Zhe Tian, Umberto Capitanio, Francesco Montorsi, Shahrokh F Shariat, Fred Saad, Alberto Briganti, Pierre I Karakiewicz
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada. ., Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada., Department of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology, URI, Urological Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina, 52, 20132, Milan, Italy., Department of Urology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31468289
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