Who ordered that? The economics of treatment choices in medical care

A Chandra, D Cutler, Z Song - Handbook of health economics, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract In the United States, two patients with the same medical condition can receive
drastically different treatments. In addition, the same patient can walk into two physicians' …

The contemporary management of prostate cancer in the United States: lessons from the cancer of the prostate strategic urologic research endeavor (CapSURE), a …

MR Cooperberg, JM Broering, MS Litwin… - The Journal of …, 2004 - auajournals.org
Purpose: The epidemiology and treatment of prostate cancer have changed dramatically in
the prostate specific antigen era. A large disease registry facilitates the longitudinal …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-reported outcomes after monitoring, surgery, or radiotherapy for prostate cancer

JL Donovan, FC Hamdy, JA Lane… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Robust data on patient-reported outcome measures comparing treatments for
clinically localized prostate cancer are lacking. We investigated the effects of active …

[HTML][HTML] Continued benefit to rectal separation for prostate radiation therapy: final results of a phase III trial

DA Hamstra, N Mariados, J Sylvester, D Shah… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose SpaceOAR, a Food and Drug Administration–approved hydrogel intended to create
a rectal–prostate space, was evaluated in a single-blind phase III trial of image guided …

Metabolic Imaging of Patients with Prostate Cancer Using Hyperpolarized [1-13C]Pyruvate

SJ Nelson, J Kurhanewicz, DB Vigneron… - Science translational …, 2013 - science.org
This first-in-man imaging study evaluated the safety and feasibility of hyperpolarized [1-13C]
pyruvate as an agent for noninvasively characterizing alterations in tumor metabolism for …

Quality of life and satisfaction with outcome among prostate-cancer survivors

MG Sanda, RL Dunn, J Michalski… - … England Journal of …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Background We sought to identify determinants of health-related quality of life after primary
treatment of prostate cancer and to measure the effects of such determinants on satisfaction …

Time trends and local variation in primary treatment of localized prostate cancer

MR Cooperberg, JM Broering… - Journal of Clinical …, 2010 - ascopubs.org
Purpose In the absence of high-level evidence or clinical guidelines supporting any given
active treatment approach over another for localized prostate cancer, clinician and patient …

The University of California, San Francisco Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment score: a straightforward and reliable preoperative predictor of disease recurrence …

MR Cooperberg, DJ Pasta, EP Elkin… - The Journal of …, 2005 - auajournals.org
Purpose: Multivariate prognostic instruments aim to predict risk of recurrence among
patients with localized prostate cancer. We devised a novel risk assessment tool which …

Defining biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: a proposal for a standardized definition

AJ Stephenson, MW Kattan, JA Eastham… - Journal of clinical …, 2006 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) defined biochemical recurrence (BCR) of prostate
cancer is widely used for reporting the outcome of radical prostatectomy (RP). A …

Five-year outcomes after prostatectomy or radiotherapy for prostate cancer: the prostate cancer outcomes study

AL Potosky, WW Davis, RM Hoffman… - Journal of the …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Background: Men treated for clinically localized prostate cancer with either radical
prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy usually survive many years with the side …