Anatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts, 8/15
August 2015—Quality of diagnostic staging in patients with bladder cancer: a process-outcomes link: Muscle sampling is often used as a surrogate for staging quality in patients with bladder cancer. The association of staging quality at diagnosis and survival was examined among patients with bladder cancer. The clinical records of all individuals within the Los Angeles Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry with an incident diagnosis of nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer in 2004–2005 were reviewed.