Epidemiology

Internal medicine

Cancer registry

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results

Prostate cancer

Cancer

Surgery

Watchful waiting

Radiation therapy

Medicine

JAMA

This cancer epidemiology study uses SEER data to examine US trends in use of active surveillance, watchful waiting, radiotherapy, and surgical management of localized prostate cancer among men with low-, intermediate-, and high-risk disease treated between 2010 and 2015.

Use of Active Surveillance or Watchful Waiting for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer and Management Trends Across Risk Groups in the United States, 2010-2015