Prospective Longitudinal Health-related Quality of Life Analysis of the Finnish Arm of the PRIAS Active Surveillance Cohort: 11 Years of Follow-up

Living with an untreated cancer may alter quality of life (QoL) in the long term.To prospectively study long-term changes in general, mental, and physical QoL in a contemporary active surveillance (AS) patient cohort with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa).The study population consisted of patients enrolled in the PRIAS trial in Helsinki University Hospital (n = 348). The RAND-36 questionnaire was used to assess general QoL at the start of AS and at...