Dear Editor,
We read the study by Fang et al. [1] with great interest and would like to congratulate the authors for their superb study. The authors compared the oncologic outcomes of bladder cancer (BC) of different ethnicities, which may aid in clinical decision-making. As such, there are a few points that we would like to bring up.
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Their study included patients with primary BC but did not exclude multiple primary cancers. However, another SEER-based study showed BC patients were at a significantly higher risk of developing a second malignancy, which may affect patients’ survival [2].
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BC surgery in the SEER database includes transurethral resection of bladder, partial cystectomy and complete cystectomy, etc. It would be more meaningful to stratify patients according to the type of surgery that they received; in this way, readers can easily see which surgical treatment improves BC patient’s survival better.
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