Table 2.
Characteristics of the survey participants
| Sociodemographics |
All treatments (n = 1796) |
TURBT only (n = 306) |
TURBT and BCG/MMC (n = 562) |
Radical cystectomy (n = 405) |
RC and other treatments a (n = 299) |
Radical RT treatments b (n = 155) |
Difference across treatment groups c | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | IQR | Age | IQR | Age | IQR | Age | IQR | Age | IQR | Age | IQR | |||
| Median age at diagnosis | 70 | 64–76 | 71 | 64–78 | 69 | 63–75 | 69 | 62–75 | 68 | 63–72 | 74 | 67–78 | <0.001 | |
| Median age at survey | 76 | 70–82 | 78 | 71–84 | 76 | 70–82 | 75 | 69–80 | 74 | 70–78 | 79 | 73–84 | <0.001 | |
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |||
| Sex | Male | 1,376 | 76.6 | 235 | 76.8 | 449 | 79.9 | 296 | 73.1 | 224 | 74.9 | 125 | 80.7 | 0.090 |
| Female | 420 | 23.4 | 71 | 23.2 | 113 | 20.1 | 109 | 26.9 | 75 | 25.1 | 30 | 19.4 | ||
| No. of other long-term conditions | None | 433 | 24.1 | 76 | 24.8 | 122 | 21.7 | 111 | 27.4 | 79 | 26.4 | 29 | 18.7 | 0.168 |
| 1 | 545 | 30.4 | 84 | 27.5 | 176 | 31.3 | 121 | 29.9 | 96 | 32.1 | 47 | 30.3 | ||
| 2 | 384 | 21.4 | 61 | 19.9 | 113 | 20.1 | 92 | 22.7 | 62 | 20.7 | 38 | 24.5 | ||
| 3 | 237 | 13.2 | 48 | 15.7 | 80 | 14.2 | 42 | 10.4 | 42 | 14.0 | 21 | 13.6 | ||
| 4 | 197 | 11.0 | 37 | 12.1 | 71 | 12.6 | 39 | 9.6 | 20 | 6.7 | 20 | 12.9 | ||
| Socioeconomic deprivation | 1—least deprived | 397 | 22.1 | 62 | 20.3 | 135 | 24.0 | 85 | 21.0 | 67 | 22.4 | 28 | 18.1 | 0.838 |
| 2 | 457 | 25.5 | 71 | 23.2 | 136 | 24.2 | 99 | 24.4 | 84 | 28.1 | 46 | 29.7 | ||
| 3 | 378 | 21.1 | 67 | 21.9 | 120 | 21.4 | 85 | 21.0 | 62 | 20.7 | 37 | 23.9 | ||
| 4 | 273 | 15.2 | 49 | 16.0 | 84 | 15.0 | 68 | 16.8 | 38 | 12.7 | 19 | 12.3 | ||
| 5—most deprived | 291 | 16.2 | 57 | 18.6 | 87 | 15.5 | 68 | 16.8 | 48 | 16.1 | 25 | 16.1 | ||
| Stage at diagnosis | I | 773 | 43.0 | 195 | 63.7 | 333 | 59.3 | 149 | 36.8 | 57 | 19.1 | 20 | 12.9 | <0.001 |
| II | 203 | 11.3 | – | 2.3 | – | 1.3 | 53 | 13.1 | 62 | 20.7 | 66 | 42.6 | ||
| III | 69 | 3.8 | – | 1.0 | – | 0.2 | 37 | 3.1 | 17 | 5.7 | – | 6.5 | ||
| IV | 57 | 3.2 | – | 1.0 | – | 0.2 | 17 | 4.2 | 24 | 8.0 | – | 4.5 | ||
| Unknown | 694 | 38.6 | 98 | 32.0 | 220 | 39.2 | 149 | 36.8 | 139 | 46.5 | 52 | 33.6 | ||
BCG = bacillus Calmette-Guerin; IQR = interquartile range; MMC = intravesical mitomycin C; RC = radical cystectomy; RT = radiotherapy; TURBT = transurethral resection of a bladder tumour.
Including radical cystectomy with intravenous chemotherapy (77%), intravenous chemotherapy and radiotherapy (6%) or immunotherapy (5%), and radiotherapy (1%) or immunotherapy (10%).
Four patients received <52 Gy but were classified by consensus as radical (one received 44 Gy in 22 fractions and three received 50 Gy in 20 fractions).
Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to compare age across treatment groups and chi-square tests were used to compare the categorical variables—small numbers suppressed to preserve patient anonymity.