How Active is Active Surveillance? Intensity of Followup during Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

While major prostate cancer active surveillance programs recommend repeat testing such as prostate specific antigen and prostate biopsy, to our knowledge compliance with such testing is unknown. We determined whether men in the community receive the same intensity of active surveillance testing as in prospective active surveillance protocols.

Materials and methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of men 66 years old or older in the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results)-Medicare database. These men were diagnosed with prostate cancer from 2001 to 2009, did not receive curative therapy in the year after diagnosis and underwent 1 or more post-diagnosis prostate biopsies. We used multivariable adjusted Poisson regression to determine the association

SUBMITTER: Loeb S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5010531 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature