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- Title
Individualized Estimates of Overdiagnosis in Screen-Detected Prostate Cancer.
- Authors
Gulati, Roman; Inoue, Lurdes Y. T.; Gore, John L.; Katcher, Jeffrey; Etzioni, Ruth
- Abstract
Background The chance that a prostate cancer detected by screening is overdiagnosed (ie, it would not have been detected in the absence of screening) can vary widely depending on the patient's age and tumor characteristics. The purpose of this study is to use age, Gleason score, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level to help inform patients with screen-detected prostate cancers about the chances their cancers were overdiagnosed. Methods A computer microsimulation model of prostate cancer natural history was used to generate virtual life histories in the presence and absence of PSA screening, including an indicator of whether screen-detected cancers are overdiagnosed. A logistic regression model was fit to nonmetastatic patients diagnosed by screening with PSA less than 10ng/mL, and a nomogram was created to predict the individualized risk of overdiagnosis given age, Gleason score, and PSA at diagnosis. Results The calibrated microsimulation model closely reproduces observed incidence trends in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registries by age, stage, and Gleason score. The fitted logistic regression predicts risks of overdiagnosis among PSA-detected patients with an area under the curve of 0.75. Chances of overdiagnosis range from 2.9% to 88.1%. Conclusions The chances of overdiagnosis vary considerably by age, Gleason score, and PSA at diagnosis.The overdiagnosis nomogram presents tailored estimates of these risks based on patient and tumor information known at diagnosis and can be used to inform decisions about treating PSA-detected prostate cancers.
- Subjects
PROSTATE cancer; DIAGNOSIS; PROSTATE-specific antigen; OVERDIAGNOSIS; MICROSIMULATION modeling (Statistics); CANCER research
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014, Vol 106, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djt367