Focal therapy: patients, interventions, and outcomes--a report from a consensus meeting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Focal therapy as a treatment option for localized prostate cancer (PCa) is an increasingly popular and rapidly evolving field.

Objective

To gather expert opinion on patient selection, interventions, and meaningful outcome measures for focal therapy in clinical practice and trial design.

Design, setting, and participants

Fifteen experts in focal therapy followed a modified two-stage RAND/University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Appropriateness Methodology process. All participants independently scored 246 statements prior to rescoring at a face-to-face meeting. The meeting occurred in June 2013 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, supported by the Wellcome Trust and the UK Department of Health.

Outcome measurements and statistical analysis

Ag

SUBMITTER: Donaldson IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4410301 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature