Open AccessFeedback on Baseline Use of Staging Images is Important to Improve Image Overuse with Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer Patients
Author(s) -
Harutake Sawazaki,
Atsushi Sengiku,
Masaaki Imamura,
Takeshi Takahashi,
Hisato Kobayashi,
Keiji Ogura
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asian pacific journal of cancer prevention
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2476-762X
pISSN - 1513-7368
DOI - 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.4.1707
Subject(s) - medicine , stage (stratigraphy) , logistic regression , prostate cancer , biopsy , radiology , retrospective cohort study , prostate , pathological , multivariate analysis , t stage , cancer , paleontology , biology
The objective of this study was to evaluate baseline use and positive rates of staging images (bone scan, CT) in newly diagnosed patients with prostate cancer (PCa) and to improve staging image overuse.