Radical Prostatectomy Population-based Comparative Effectiveness of Salvage Radical Prostatectomy vs Cryotherapy David F. Friedlander, Xiangmei Gu, Sandip M. Prasad, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Paul L. Nguyen, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Maxine Sun, and Jim C. Hu OBJECTIVE METHODS
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To characterize population-based practice patterns, disease-specific and overall mortality, and cost associated with salvage cryotherapy (SCT) vs salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP). We retrospectively identified 440 men who failed primary radiation therapy and subsequently underwent SCT (n ¼ 341, 77.5%) or SRP (n ¼ 99, 22.5%) between 1992 and 2009 from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End ResultseMedicare linked data. Propensity score analyses were used to compare overall and prostate cancer-specific mortality and associated Medicare expenditures for SRP vs SCT. Men undergoing SCT were more likely to be white (P
RESULTS
CONCLUSION
To characterize population-based practice patterns, disease-specific and overall mortality, and cost associated with salvage cryotherapy (SCT) vs salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP). We retrospectively identified 440 men who failed primary radiation therapy and subsequently underwent SCT (n ¼ 341, 77.5%) or SRP (n ¼ 99, 22.5%) between 1992 and 2009 from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End ResultseMedicare linked data. Propensity score analyses were used to compare overall and prostate cancer-specific mortality and associated Medicare expenditures for SRP vs SCT. Men undergoing SCT were more likely to be white (P
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