Analysis of the effects of cyproheptadine on bladder cancer through big data

This study was designed to compare the efficacy of Cyproheptadine (CY) in patients with bladder cancer (BC) who received different therapeutic modalities. We used the database from a hospital in Taiwan for analysis. We included patients diagnosed as having bladder cancer from January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2017. The patient cohort comprised those who received different treatments, and we compared patients who received CY with those who did not. In total, 627 patients were included, and the mean follow-up duration was 3.26 years. All data were filtered out by 230 million data and 119 patients had used CY. Among them, 32 patients were used over 3 months of CY. The CY treatment curve shown by Kaplan-Meier survival curves for patients treated is higher than that of the non-CY effect. The value of Chi-squared statistic was 4.138 with associated p-value less than 0.05. Two survival curves shown by the result of the log rank test differ significantly. The grouping variable different treatments for non-CY and CY has a significant influence on survival rate. These results suggest that the use of CY may improve the survival rate of patients with BC.