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Table 1 Study characteristics, basic demographics and clinical characteristics

From: Effect of subsequent bladder cancer on survival in upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients post-radical nephroureterectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author/s (year)

Study design

Country

Number of patients

Age (years)

Sex (M/F)

Tumor stage

Lymph node stage

Tumor grade

Follow-up (months)

Outcome/s

NOS

SBCa

Non-SBCa

Jiang et al. (2020)

Retrospective,Single center

China

42

187

66.7 ± 9.8

M (117)

F (112)

Ta-1 (78)

T2 (114)

T3 (37)

N0 (229)

Low (37)

High (192)

40 (IQR24,56)

CSS

OS

8

Elalouf et al. (2013)

Retrospective,Single center

French

85

152

68.5 ± 10.4

M (161)

F (76)

T1 (139)

T2 (22)

T3–4 (76)

N0 (67)

Nx (147)

N+ (23)

Low (43)

High (194)

44 (IQR24,73)

CSS

7

Yamashita et al. (2016)

Retrospective,Multi center

Japan

205

329

72 (30–91)

M (363)

F (171)

Ta-1 (219)

T2–4 (315)

N0 (244)

Nx (239)

N+ (51)

Low (26)

Intermediate (218)

High (273)

Unknown (48)

47 (1–78)

CSS

OS

7

Lee et al. (2017)

Retrospective,Multi center

Korea

231

529

65.6 ± 10.0;

65.2 ± 9.5

M (561)

F (199)

Ta (64)

T1 (264)

T2 (127)

T3 (296)

T4 (9)

N0 (26)

Nx (711)

N+ (23)

Low (229)

High (531)

45 (IQR3,76)

CSS

OS

7

Elawdy et al. (2017)

Retrospective,Single center

Egypt

139

158

59.0 ± 11.0

M (262)

F (35)

T1 (194)

T2 (43)

T3 (59)

T4 (1)

Nx(297)

Low (13)

Intermediate (184)

High (100)

34 (6–300)

CSS

6

  1. Abbreviations: IQR Interquartile range, NOS Newcastle-Ottowa Scale, CSS cancer specific survival, OS overall survival