Characteristics and Experiences of Patients with Localized Prostate Cancer Who Left an Active Surveillance Program

Understanding the experiences of men leaving active surveillance programs is critical to making such programs viable for men with localized prostate cancer.To generate hypotheses about the factors that influence patients' decisions to leave an active surveillance program.Using data from the Johns Hopkins active surveillance cohort, bivariate analyses and multinomial regression models examined characteristics of men who self-elected to leave,...