The cost, survival, and quality-of-life implications of guideline-discordant imaging for prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for incident prostate cancer staging imaging have been widely circulated and accepted as best practice since 1996. Despite these clear guidelines, wasteful and potentially harmful inappropriate imaging of men with prostate cancer remains prevalent.

Aim

To understand changing population-level patterns of imaging among men with incident prostate cancer, we created a state-transition microsimulation model based on existing literature and incident prostate cancer cases.

Methods

To create a cohort of patients, we identified incident prostate cancer cases from 2004 to 2009 that were diagnosed in men ages 65 and older from SEER. A microsimulation model allowed us to explore how this cohort's survival, quality

SUBMITTER: Winn AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842701 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature