The Establishment of K-CaP (the Multicenter Korean Prostate Cancer Database).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of this article was to announce the establishment of the multicenter Korean Prostate Cancer Database (K-CaP) and to provide urologists with details about K-CaP's methodology.

Materials and methods

The initial participating K-CaP institutions include five medical centers in Korea. First, we registered prostate cancer patients who underwent radical prostatectomy as the basic background data. K-CaP is poised to combine these initial observational longitudinal studies with those of other eligible institutions as the database grows. All current prostate cancer patients in Korea are able to be registered into the Web-based database system and thereby have a role in several observational studies. The structure of the database for K-CaP was developed by matching

SUBMITTER: Lee DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3630340 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature