Investigation of poorer bladder cancer survival in women in NSW, Australia: a data linkage study.

Objective: To investigate the associations of a range of personal and clinical variables with bladder cancer survival in men and women in NSW to see if we could explain why bladder cancer survival is consistently poorer in women than in men.

Patients And Methods: All 6880 cases of bladder cancers diagnosed in NSW between 2000 and 2008 were linked to hospital separation data and to deaths. Separate Cox proportional hazards regression models of hazard of bladder cancer death were constructed for those who did or did not undergo cystectomy.

Surgical services: shaping future directions.

Background: Advances in surgical techniques and anaesthetic practise have facilitated a significant change in the way surgery is currently delivered. In particular, short stay surgery including ambulatory surgery has become the norm for the majority of surgical conditions. However, the planning of surgical services has not always kept pace with nor capitalised on these clinical advances.

Patient rationale in selecting androgen deprivation (PRISAD): do we give patients what they want?

To assess patient rationale in selecting androgen deprivation, structured telephone interviews were conducted on consecutive patients on androgen deprivation over a 17-year period. The majority of these patients have stable disease that require long-term follow-up with 6-monthly PSA estimations. Synchronous PSA check with depot injections are preferred by majority of patients and longer intervals between the depot administrations are preferable due to perceived less needle pain.