Who makes the decision regarding the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer–the patient or physician?

The current study examined how patients' sociodemographic, cancer-related, and subjective affective factors impacted their role in treatment decision-making.The patient sample (N = 788) was taken from a prospective follow-up study of a population-based cohort. Participants included 343 African American and 445 Caucasian-American patients with clinically localized prostate cancer. Multinomial logistic regression was used to investigate relations...