[Active surveillance of prostate cancer: treatement-free survival according to restricted or expanded eligibility criteria].

AIM Overtreatment is an actual problem in low risk localized prostate cancer (PC) management. Active surveillance (AS) is a solution to limit this problem, but eligibility criteria remained discussed. The aim was to assess possibilities of widening selection criteria for patient in AS, studying curative treatment free survival (CTFS) according to restricted or expanded eligibility criteria. METHODS We retrospectively studied patients beginning AS between 2008 and 2014, for Gleason 6 localized PC, PSA<15ng/ml,

Keywords:

• Prostate biopsy
• Evidence-based medicine
• median time
• Proportional hazards model
• Cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Discontinuation
• Active surveillance of prostate cancer

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