High risk of non-cancer mortality in bladder cancer patients: evidence from SEER-Medicaid

The objective of this study was to investigate non-cancer causes of death and associated risk factors after bladder cancer (BC) diagnosis. Eligible BC patients were obtained from the SEER database. SEER*Stat software 8.3.9.2 was used to calculate the standardized mortality ratios (SMRs). The proportions of different non-cancer cause of death were calculated and analyzed in different follow-up periods. Multivariate competing risk model was used to analyze the risk factors for death of BC and non-cancer diseases. In total, 240,954 BC patients were included and 106,092 patients experienced death, with 37,205 (35.07