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To investigate delays to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and radical cystectomy (RC) and their effect on outcomes in a large national registry of patients with localized muscle invasive bladder cancer.

We examined how sociodemographic, clinical and area-level factors are related to short-term prostate cancer mortality versus mortality from other causes, a crucial distinction for this disease that disproportionately affects men older than 60 years.

Most chronic diseases follow a socioeconomic gradient with higher rates in lower socioeconomic groups. A growing body of research, however, reveals cancer to be a disease group with very diverse socioeconomic patterning, even demonstrating reverse socioeconomic gradients for certain cancers.

There is a perception within urology that female urologists encounter gender-based role assignments and are often "pigeonholed" into caring for more female patients and female-specific urologic issues than their male colleagues.

When using area-level disadvantage measures, size of geographic unit can have major effects on recorded socioeconomic cancer disparities. This study examined the extent of changes in recorded socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival and distant stage when the measure of socioeconomic disadvantage was based on smaller Census Collection Districts (CDs) instead of Statistical Local Areas (SLAs).