PURPOSE: @entity5464 is a major health problem in the United States. We assessed potential years of life lost secondary to @entity5464 in the United States from 1972 to 2006 using the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) database. We report trends in potential years of life lost during the same period. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Potential years of life lost were calculated to assess premature mortality trends for ureter, @entity8 , penis, @entity263 . Calculations were based on SEER @entity5 mortality data. Potential years of life lost up to and including age 75 years were calculated by and across genders in 5-year increments between 1972 and 2006. RESULTS: A total of 7,733,235 potential years of life were lost in @entity1 and @entity1 . In each gender the greatest potential loss was for kidney and @entity703 related mortality. In each gender no improvement in the potential loss due to ureteral and @entity150 related mortality was observed during 3 decades. In males the greatest decrease in potential years of life lost was for @entity5 , followed by @entity263 . CONCLUSIONS: There has been an increasing trend in potential years of life lost related to @entity5464 during the last 35 years for males and females. This trend is mainly due to an @entity703 . The continued increase in potential years of life lost due to @entity703 and the lack of a decrease in the loss in those with @entity150 should alert urologists and health care policy makers to deficient areas that most need to be addressed.

Potential years of life lost due to XXXX in the United States: trends from 1972 to 2006 based on data from the SEER database.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'men'] @entity8 :: ('MESH:D007674', 'Disease') :: ['bladder, kidney and renal pelvis'] @entity263 :: ('MESH:D011471', 'Disease') :: ['testis and prostate cancers', 'prostate cancer'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['testicular cancer', 'cancer'] @entity5464 :: ('MESH:D014565', 'Disease') :: ['genitourinary cancer', 'urogenital cancer', 'Urogenital cancer'] @entity150 :: ('MESH:D001749', 'Disease') :: ['bladder cancer'] @entity703 :: ('MESH:D007680', 'Disease') :: ['renal cancer', 'renal pelvis cancer', 'increase in kidney cancer']
@entity5464 :: (MESH:D014565,Disease) :: ['urogenital cancer']
