Table 1.
Patients’ demographics and clinicopathological variables.
| Variable | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of patients | 213 |
| Age, years, median (IQR) | 74.0 (67.1–81.1) |
| Gender, n (%) | |
| Male | 170 (79.8) |
| Highest education, n (%) | |
| No formal education | 8 (3.8) |
| High school | 56 (26.3) |
| GCSE | 39 (18.3) |
| A‐levels | 20 (9.4) |
| University or higher degree | 31 (14.6) |
| Not known | 59 (27.7) |
| Smoking history, n (%) | |
| Non‐smoker | 56 (26.3) |
| Ex‐smoker | 129 (60.6) |
| Current smoker | 18 (8.5) |
| Not known | 10 (4.7) |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | |
| White | 188 (88.3) |
| Non‐White | 6 (2.8) |
| Not known | 19 (8.9) |
| Employment, n (%) | |
| Full time/part‐time/home maker/voluntary | 45 (21.1) |
| Retired | 161 (75.6) |
| Disability/unemployed | 4 (1.9) |
| Missing | 3 (1.4) |
| New or recurrent tumour, n (%) | |
| New | 135 (63.4) |
| Recurrence | 78 (36.6) |
| Previous cystoscopies, n (%) | |
| ≤2 | 66 (31.0) |
| 2–5 | 92 (43.2) |
| ≥6 | 47 (22.1) |
| Not known | 8 (3.8) |
| Tumour grade, n (%) | |
| G1 | 36 (16.9) |
| G2 | 99 (46.5) |
| G3 | 71 (33.3) |
| Not known | 7 (3.3) |
| Tumour stage, n (%) | |
| CIS | 3 (1.4) |
| pTa | 156 (73.2) |
| pT1 | 47 (22.1) |
| Not known | 7 (3.3) |
| Papillary with concurrent CIS, n (%) | 5 (2.4) |
| Disease risk, n (%) | |
| Low | 18 (8.5) |
| Intermediate | 105 (49.3) |
| High | 83 (39.0) |
| Not known | 7 (3.3) |
| Patients’ perception of disease risk, n (%) | |
| Low | 49 (23.0) |
| Intermediate | 112 (52.6) |
| High | 38 (17.8) |
| Not known | 14 (6.6) |
CIS, carcinoma in situ; GCSE, general certificate of secondary education.