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. 2023 Nov 1;32(11):1660-1667.
doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-23-0562.

Temporal Trends of Stages and Survival of Biliary Tract Cancers in the United States and Associations with Demographic Factors

Wanqing Wen  1 , Michael Mumma  2 , Wei Zheng  1
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Temporal Trends of Stages and Survival of Biliary Tract Cancers in the United States and Associations with Demographic Factors

Wanqing Wen et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. .

Abstract

Background: The incidence of cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer has been increasing and decreasing respectively in the United States, whereas their mortality has been declining since 1980, which suggests improved overall survival of biliary tract cancers (BTC). We aimed to investigate temporal trends of BTC stages and survival and their associations with demographic factors.

Methods: A total of 55,163 patients with BTC collected from 2000 to 2018 from the NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results 18 registry were included in this study. We assessed the temporal trend of BTC stages with diagnosis years using the annual percentage of change (APC) in the proportion of the stages. We estimated the association of BTC survival and stages with diagnosis years and demographic factors using the Cox regression models.

Results: While localized BTC proportion remained little changed from 2006 to 2018, the proportion of regional and distant BTCs significantly decreased (APC = -2.3%) and increased (APC = 2.7%), respectively, through the years. The overall and cancer-specific survival increased from 41.0% and 47.3% in 2000 to 2004 to 51.2% and 53.8% in 2015 to 2018, respectively. Patients with BTC who were older, Black, unmarried, or had lower socioeconomic status (SES) had significantly poorer overall survival.

Conclusions: We found that distant and regional BTC significantly increased and decreased, respectively, and the BTC survival significantly improved over time. Age, sex, race, SES, and marital status were significantly associated with overall survival and less evidently with cancer-specific survival of patients with BTC.

Impact: Our findings suggest that demographic factors were associated with BTC stages and BTC survival.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest: The authors disclose no conflicts.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Temporal trend of proportions of different BTC summary stages. While the proportion of localized BTCs remained little changed over the time, the proportion of regional and distant BTCs significantly decreased and increased, respectively. Data are from the SEER 18 registry.
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