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were excluded. Patients were grouped into quartiles based on distribution of time intervals to surgery: Q1 (1-30 days), Q2 (31-50 days), Q3 (51-80 days), and Q4 (>80 days). The primary outcome was overall survival. Secondary outcomes were upstaging to pN2 and margin-positive (>R0) resection rate. Survival was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier and Cox Proportional Hazards methods. Nodal upstaging and >R0 resection rates were modeled with multivariable logistic regression. Result: A total of 812 patients met study criteria. The median interval from diagnosis to surgery was 52 days. The unadjusted median survival for Q1, 2, 3, and 4 was 16, 19, 20, and 27 months, respectively (log-rank p¼0.004). In multivariable analysis, increased time to surgery was not associated with worse overall survival (Table 1), and Q4 (>80 days) was independently associated with improved survival compared to Q1. When modeled as a continuous variable, an increased time to surgery was associated with a small but clinically insignificant increase in survival (AHR 0.997; 95%CI 0.995-0.999; p¼0.005). In a multivariable regression of factors predicting pathologic upstaging to N2, increased time to surgery was significantly associated with upstaging (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] for Q4 compared to Q1: 2.26; 95%CI 1.04-5.28). In a separate regression of >R0 resection, an increased interval to surgery was not associated with margin-positive resection (AOR 0.70; 95%CI 0.41-1.21). Conclusion: An increasing interval from diagnosis to definitive surgery for MPM was not associated with worse overall survival or marginpositive resection but was associated with higher likelihood of pathologic nodal upstaging in this analysis.

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