Regional differences in patient age and prostate cancer characteristics and rates of treatment modalities in favorable and unfavorable intermediate risk prostate cancer across United States SEER registries

Intermediate risk (IR) prostate cancer (PCa) is a highly heterogeneous entity and can be distinguished into favorable and unfavorable IR PCa according to biopsy, PSA and cT-stage characteristics. These differences may translate into differences in treatment type.We tested for differences in PCa tumor characteristics and differences in active treatment rates (radical prostatectomy [RP], external beam radiotherapy [EBRT]) according to...