National Trends in the Management of Low and Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer in the United States

To our knowledge factors affecting the adoption of noncurative initial management in the United States for low risk prostate cancer on a population based level are unknown. We measured temporal trends in the proportion of patients with low and intermediate risk prostate cancer who elected noncurative initial treatment in the United States and analyzed the association of factors affecting management choice.We identified 465,591 and 237,257 men...