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. 2021 Mar;32(2):e24.
doi: 10.3802/jgo.2021.32.e24. Epub 2021 Jan 13.

Hospital volume-outcome relationship in vulvar cancer treatment: a Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group study

Koji Matsuo  1 , Shin Nishio  2 , Shinya Matsuzaki  3 , Hiroko Machida  4 , Mikio Mikami  4
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Hospital volume-outcome relationship in vulvar cancer treatment: a Japanese Gynecologic Oncology Group study

Koji Matsuo et al. J Gynecol Oncol. 2021 Mar.
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Conflict of interest statement

M.K. has received honorarium from Chugai, conducted textbook editorial in Springer, and got the expense for meeting attendance from VBL therapeutics. M.S. has research funding from MSD. The other authors have no potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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Fig. 1. Volume-outcome relationship for survival outcome.
Effects of hospital treatment volume of vulvar cancer over 10-year study period on PFS (A) and OS (B) are shown in all histology types. Sensitivity analysis was performed for non-Paget disease: PFS (C) and OS (D). Cox proportional hazard regression model with restricted cubic spline transformation was used for analysis, adjusting for a priori survival factors (age, histology, and cancer stage). The p-value represents the test of non-linear association. Hospital treatment volume of 10 cases over 10-year study period was used as a referent. Bold lines represent the estimated effect size and dash lines represent 95% confidence interval. OS, overall survival; PFS, progression-free survival.
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