Historical Prostate Cancer Screening and Treatment Outcomes from a Single Institution

To quantify outcomes of individuals diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in a single institution. Retrospective electronic chart abstraction. Marshfield Clinic, the largest private multispecialty group practice in Wisconsin, and one of the largest in the United States, provides health care serv...

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Veröffentlicht in:Clinical medicine & research 2012-08, Vol.10 (3), p.97-105
Hauptverfasser: Cross, Deanna S, Ritter, Mark, Reding, Douglas J
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Zusammenfassung:To quantify outcomes of individuals diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in a single institution. Retrospective electronic chart abstraction. Marshfield Clinic, the largest private multispecialty group practice in Wisconsin, and one of the largest in the United States, provides health care services annually to approximately 385,000 unique patients through 1.8 million annual patient encounters. Individuals within the Marshfield Clinic cancer registry who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1960 and 2009. Electronic chart abstraction from the cancer registry and the electronic medical record was conducted (N=6,181). Data abstracted included age at diagnosis; stage and grade of tumor; prostate specific antigen (PSA) values before, at, and after diagnosis; initial cancer treatment; follow-up time; subsequent cancer treatments; evidence of metastasis; age of death; and cause of death, if known. The average age of prostate cancer diagnosis has decreased from 70-71 years in the 1960's and 1970's to an average age at diagnosis of 67 years in the 2000's (P
ISSN:1539-4182
1554-6179
DOI:10.3121/cmr.2011.1042