Cognitive factors influencing treatment decision-making in patients with localised prostate cancer: development of a standardised questionnaire

Background:Men diagnosed with localised prostate cancer have to make a well-informed treatment choice between (robot-assisted) radical prostatectomy, external beam radiotherapy and, in selected cases, brachytherapy and active surveillance. We developed and validated a questionnaire to determine the cognitive reasons motivating this choice.Materials and methods:The Prostate Cancer Decision-Making Questionnaire (PC-DMQ) was designed in-house and...