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4572 Background: Social determinants of health can influence mortality in bladder cancer. We sought to understand the trends and survival differences for urothelial cancer (UC) and non-urothelial cancer (nUC) based on demographic, socioeconomic, clinical, and treatment from the NCDB. Methods: Using the NCDB database with patient-level data extraction from 2004 to 2020, we sought to identify the socioeconomic differences, clinical characteristics and examine survival trends for both UC and nUC bladder cancer. Results: Majority of UC patients (pts) were M (555107, 75.6%) and 178733 were F; nUC pts had 14296 M and 8835 F, median age was 72 years. 669,669 (or 91.3%) of UC pts were White (W), 5.4% (39444) were Black (B) and nUC pts had 19771 (85.5%) W and 2492 (10.8%) B. 41.2% of UC pts were treated at a Comprehensive Community Cancer Program (CCCP) followed by 28.3% at an academic/research program (ARP) with 20.7% at an integrated network cancer program (INCP) compared to nUC pts at 37.5%, 34.3% and 19.2%, respectively. Most UC pts (65.6%) had Medicare followed by 26.9% with private insurance and 3.2% with Medicaid. Distribution of stage at diagnosis for UC pts were: Stage 0 at 36.9%, Stage I at 16.3%, Stage II worse for B = 73.03 mos (CI 71.03 – 74.84) vs W = 90.38 mos (CI 89.95-90.81), Log-rank p<0.0001; mOS was highest for ARP at 96.46 mos (CI 95.54-97.45); CDS of 0 at 108.29 mos (CI 107.66-108.85); private insurance at 185.79 mos (CI 183.98-188.16); mOS for nUC was better for M at 15.64 (CI, 15.05 -16.28) vs F at 12.68 (CI, 12.02, 13.31), Log-rank p<0.001. mOS for metastatic involvement for bone: UC: 5.03 (CI, 4.8, 5.39) vs nUC: 5.42 (4.4, 6.34), Log-rank p=0.2007; brain: U: 3.61 (CI 2.99, 4.3) vs nUC: 5.06 (2.5, 7.13); Log-rank p=0.5765; lung: U: 5.09 (CI, 4.76, 5.39) vs nUC: 4.8 (3.68, 5.78); Log-rank p=0.2163; liver: U: 3.32 (CI,3.06, 3.61) vs nUC: 5.42 (CI, 4.11, 6.44); Log-rank p=0.0009; LN: U: 7.1 (CI, 6.6, 7.56) vs nUC: 6.34 (5.36, 6.9); Logrank p=0.0007; Treatment using surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy all showed improvement in U vs nUC (all Log-rank p<0.0001). Conclusions: Women had better survival than men in UC but not in nUC. Factors including lower stages, Whites, private insurance, better CDS scores, treatment at academic/research facility, and lymph node metastases all showed improved survival. These data highlight the importance of bridging the gap between socioeconomic differences to improve outcomes for UC and nUC pts.
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