Patients' preferences for the management of non-metastatic prostate cancer: discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To establish which attributes of conservative treatments for prostate cancer are most important to men.

Design

Discrete choice experiment.

Setting

Two London hospitals.

Participants

129 men with non-metastatic prostate cancer, mean age 70 years; 69 of 118 (58%) with T stage 1 or 2 cancer at diagnosis.

Main outcome measures

Men's preferences for, and trade-offs between, the attributes of diarrhoea, hot flushes, ability to maintain an erection, breast swelling or tenderness, physical energy, sex drive, life expectancy, and out of pocket expenses.

Results

The men's responses to changes in attributes were all statistically significant. When asked to assume a starting life expectancy of five years, the men were willing to make trade-offs betw

SUBMITTER: Sculpher M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC341386 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature