Table 4 Survival compared to literature on prospective clinical trials and retrospective observational studies.

From: Treatment patterns and clinical outcomes of chemotherapy treatment in patients with muscle-invasive or metastatic bladder cancer in the Netherlands

Setting

Current study

Clinical Trial Setting

Observational

Median OS [95%CI]

Median OS

Median OS

MIBC or locally advanced disease

RC alone

47.4 months [28.9–65.8]

46 months1

54 months19

NAC + RC

35.3 months [5.6–64.9]*

77 months1

68 months19

IC + RC

19.5 months [0.0–49.1]

18–26 months20

Best Supportive Care

3.8 months [3.2–4.4]

5.3 months17

Metastatic or inoperable disease

First-line chemotherapy (1L)

12.6 months [8.8–16.4]

14.0–15.2 months4

16.1 months24

12.7–15.8 months5

Recurrent disease after RC

7.5 months [0.0–15.6]

5.2 months25

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Second-line chemotherapy (2L)

6.6 months [4.7–8.4]

5.9–7.0 months7,8

9.2 months24

Best Supportive Care (BSC)

2.0 months [0.9–3.2]

4.3–4.6 months5,7

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  1. MIBC muscle-invasive bladder cancer, RC radical cystectomy, NAC neoadjuvant chemotherapy, IC induction chemotherapy, 95% CI 95% confidence interval.
  2. *Patients with cT2N0M0 are not treated with NAC before RC in our hospital, and thus not present in this group.