Trends and Outcome from Radical Therapy for Primary Non-Metastatic Prostate Cancer in a UK Population

David C Greenberg, Artitaya Lophatananon, Karen A Wright, Kenneth R Muir and Vincent J Gnanapragasam

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-12

Abstract: Background: Increasing proportions of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK are presenting with non-metastatic disease. We investigated how treatment trends in this demographic have changed. Patient and Methods: Non-metastatic cancers diagnosed from 2000–2010 in the UK Anglian Cancer network stratified by age and risk group were analysed [n = 10,365]. Radiotherapy [RT] and prostatectomy [RP] cancer specific survival [CSS] were further compared [n = 4755]. Results: Over the decade we observed a fall in uptake of primary androgen deprivation therapy but a rise in conservative management [CM] and radical therapy [p

Date: 2015
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