Diagnostic Age, Age at Death and Stage Migration in Men Dying with or from Prostate Cancer in Denmark.

ABSTRACT: The impact of changes in diagnostic activity and treatment options on prostate cancer epidemiology remains a subject of debate. Newly published long-term survival outcomes may not represent contemporary patients and new perspectives are in demand. All men dying in Denmark with prostate cancer diagnosis during a 10-year period were analyzed to address the stage migration of and time lived with prostate cancer diagnosis. All male deaths in Denmark between 2007 and 2016 (n = 261,657) were obtained and crosslinked with The Danish Prostate Cancer Registry (DaPCaR) and the Danish Cancer Registry. Correlation in diagnostic age and stage (localized, locally advanced, metastatic), age at death and cause of death were investigated by Kruskal-Wallis test and linear regression in 15,692 men dia

SUBMITTER: Andersen MCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9140637 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature