Decreased Preoperative Serum AGR as a Diagnostic Marker of Poor Prognosis after Radical Surgery of Upper Urinary Tract and Bladder Cancers from a Pooled Analysis of 9,002 Patients

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Items</td><td class="align_center">Populations</td><td class="align_center">Intervention</td><td class="align_center">Comparator</td><td class="align_center">Outcomes</td><td class="align_center">Study designs</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="6"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Inclusion criteria</td><td class="align_center">Patients diagnosed with urinary tract cancers including upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma and bladder urothelial cancer had AGR pretreatment of radical surgery.</td><td class="align_center">AGR pretreatment (low)</td><td class="align_center">AGR pretreatment (high)</td><td class="align_center">Overall survival, cancer-specific survival, recurrence-free survival, progression-free survival, and metastasis-free survival.</td><td class="align_center">Clinical research.</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Exclusion criteria</td><td class="align_center">Patients with urinary tract cancers undergoing nonradical surgery or palliative therapy or no AGR pretreatment.</td><td class="align_center">Other</td><td class="align_center">Other</td><td class="align_center">Patient feelings; inadequate indicators.</td><td class="align_center">Letters, comments, reviews, case reports, abstracts, and animal experiment.</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="6"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td><div>AGR: albumin-to-globulin ratio.<br/></div></td></tr></table>

<div>Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcomes, and Study Designs (PICOS) structure.</div>

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Table 1: Decreased Preoperative Serum AGR as a Diagnostic Marker of Poor Prognosis after Radical Surgery of Upper Urinary Tract and Bladder Cancers from a Pooled Analysis of 9,002 Patients 

Table 1 | Decreased Preoperative Serum AGR as a Diagnostic Marker of Poor Prognosis after Radical Surgery of Upper Urinary Tract and Bladder Cancers from a Pooled Analysis of 9,002 Patients 