Weiva Sieh, Daphne Y Lichtensztajn, David O Nelson, Myles Cockburn, Dee W West, James D Brooks, Ellen T Chang
{"title":"Treatment and Mortality in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer: A Population-Based Study in California.","authors":"Weiva Sieh, Daphne Y Lichtensztajn, David O Nelson, Myles Cockburn, Dee W West, James D Brooks, Ellen T Chang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To provide patients and physicians with population-based estimates of mortality from prostate cancer or other causes depending upon the primary treatment modality, stratified by patient age, tumor stage and grade.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a 10-year competing-risk analysis of 45,440 men diagnosed with clinically localized (T1 or T2) prostate cancer in California during 1995-1998. Information on patient characteristics, primary treatment and cause of death was obtained from the California Cancer Registry.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In this population-based cohort, the most common primary treatment was surgery (40.4%), followed by radiotherapy (29.1%), conservative management (20.8%), and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) monotherapy (9.8%). Prostate cancer mortality differed significantly (p < 0.0001) across treatment groups among patients <80 years at diagnosis with moderately or poorly differentiated disease; the 10-year disease-specific mortality rates were generally highest for men treated with ADT monotherapy [range: 3.3% (95% CI=0.8-12.5%) to 53.8% (95% CI=34.4-72.2%)], intermediate for men treated with conservative management [range: 1.7% (95% CI=0.7-4.6%) to 30.0% (95% CI=16.2-48.8%] or radiotherapy [range: 3.2% (95% CI=1.8-5.5%) to 18.3% (95% CI=15.1-22.0%)], and lowest for men treated with surgery [range: 1.2% (95% CI=0.8-1.7%) to 11.0% (95% CI=8.4-14.2%)].</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The cause-specific mortality estimates provided by this observational study can help patients and physicians better understand the expected long-term outcomes of localized prostate cancer given the initial treatment choice and practice patterns in the general population.</p>","PeriodicalId":94248,"journal":{"name":"The open prostate cancer journal","volume":"6 ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758138/pdf/nihms482685.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41184716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}