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Data from the 1980 long-term and short-term surveys of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer were examined to identify recent trends in the management of prostate cancer. The clinical stage distribution of patients demonstrates that higher proportions of patients were diagnosed as having occult or incidental and advanced stage D disease in the 1979 study as opposed to the 1974 series. In both periods black patients were diagnosed less often as having localized stage cancer and were observed more often to have advanced diseases. Transurethral resection and rectal examination were reported as the most common means of diagnosing prostate cancer. In both series alkaline and serum acid phosphatase studies were performed on the majority of patients, although the use was greater in the 1979 series. The use of bone scans increased nearly 3-fold from 1974 to 1979. In the long-term survey (1974 and earlier) hormone therapy was the treatment used most often, either alone or in combination with surgery or radiation. Obviously, this treatment was used in many patients with metastatic disease. In the short-term survey (1979 and earlier) a larger proportion of patients with each s

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Author

G.P. Murphy; N. Natarajan; J.E. Pontes; R.L. Schmitz; C.R. Smart; J.D. Schmidt; C. Mettlin

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Published

1982

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)