2016_BT PROSTATE CANCER COURSE BOOK

Med Care.

2014

Jul;52(7):579-85..

Perceptions of Active Surveillance and Treatment Recommendations

for Low-risk Prostate Cancer: Results from a National Survey of

Radiation Oncologists and Urologists.

Kim SP

Gross CP Nguyen PL Smaldone MC Shah ND Karnes RJ

Thompson RH

Han LC

Yu JB

Trinh QD

Ziegenfuss JY

Sun M

Tilburt

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CONCLUSIONS

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Most prostate cancer specialists in the

United States believe Active

Surveillance effective and underused

for low-risk prostate cancer …

… yet continue to recommend the

primary treatments their specialties

deliver (!)