Cost implications and complications of overtreatment of low-risk prostate cancer in the United States

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 61-68

  Aizer, Ayal A ^a   Gu, Xiangmei ^b   Chen, Ming Hui ^c   Choueiri, Toni K ^b   Martin, Neil E ^b   Efstathiou, Jason A ^d   Hyatt, Andrew S ^b   Graham, Powell L ^b   Trinh, Quoc Dien ^b   Hu, Jim C ^e   Nguyen, Paul L ^b  

^a HARVARD RADIATION ONCOLOGY PROGRAM   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER OVERTREATMENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INCOME; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW RISK PROSTATE CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED MAN; MEDICARE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTON THERAPY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION INJURY; RADICAL PERINEAL PROSTATECTOMY; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SINGLE MAN; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURVIVAL TIME; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WATCHFUL WAITING; WOUND COMPLICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CANCER STAGING; COMPLICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST OF ILLNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921443377     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2015.0009     Document Type: Article

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