Surgery versus active surveillance in clinical complete response

Active surveillance versus surgery for low risk prostate cancer: a clinical decision analysis.

PURPOSE We assessed the effect of age, health status and patient preferences on outcomes of surgery vs active surveillance for low risk prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We used Monte Carlo simulation of Markov models of the life courses of 200,000 men diagnosed with low risk prostate cancer and treated with surveillance or radical prostatectomy to calculate quality adjusted life expecta...

Complete knee replacement surgery

In normal activities such as walking, rn­ning, kneeling, climbing stairs and gettmg in and out of chairs the loa pu OI.the human knee joint can exceed five times the weight of the body. Nowadays large num­bers of people make ! urtrer d mands on the knee in participatmg 1_n sucli sport  as football, tennis and long distance runnng. It is no wonder that many people go mto their later years with o...

Treatment of exophytic renal cancer smaller than 3 cm: surgery versus active surveillance.

The Survey Effectiveness of Active Method in Communicable Disease Surveillance

Background and purpose: Surveillance is a system of continuing health checks, is considered as a critical part of public health practice for planning and implantation of effective prevention and control interventions for communicable diseases in the region. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of an active method of data collection on the improvement of these d...

Cancer Therapy: Clinical Prostate Cancer Mortality following Active Surveillance versus Immediate Radical Prostatectomy

Propose:Active surveillance has been endorsed for low-risk prostate cancer, but information about longterm outcomes and comparative effectiveness of active surveillance is lacking. The purpose of this study is to project prostate cancer mortality under active surveillance followed by radical prostatectomy versus under immediate radical prostatectomy. Experimental design: A simulation model was ...