Hospital volume and postoperative survival for three urological cancers: Prostate, kidney, and bladder

Objective To examine the association between hospital volume and postoperative 5‐year survival for patients with prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer. Method Using Osaka Cancer Registry data, we identified 9285 patients who were diagnosed as having prostate, kidney, or bladder cancer and who underwent surgery between 2007 and 2011 in Osaka, Japan. The surgical hospital volume of each hospital was calculated and then divided into quartiles (high,...