Predicting 15-Year Prostate Cancer Specific Mortality After Radical Prostatectomy

Long-term prostate cancer specific mortality after radical prostatectomy is poorly defined in the era of widespread screening. An understanding of the treated natural history of screen detected cancers and the pathological risk factors for prostate cancer specific mortality are needed for treatment decision making.Using Fine and Gray competing risk regression analysis we modeled clinical and pathological data, and followup information on 11,521...