Change in Prostate Cancer Stage over Time

Fei Zhang

2022

Abstract

Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that occurs in the prostate gland cells among males and it is the second most common type of cancer among males in the US. In early 1990, the American Urological Association (AUA) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) started recommending annual prostate cancer screening with Prostate-specific antigen test (PSA) which is a blood test. In October 2011, the US Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) published a final guideline recommending against the use of PSA based screening for prostate cancer. The influence of the use of PSA on the diagnosis rate of prostate cancer, especially in the early stage, has become a hot research topic. The goal of this paper is to determine whether there has been a change in proportion of men diagnosed with localized/regional prostate cancer over time due to the changes in PSA screening recommendations, and whether this change of proportion is associated with other risk factors. This paper uses Chi-Squared test, proportionality test and other methods to analysis data. There was significant difference between the proportion of localized/regional prostate cancer in year 2004 and 2015 as USPSTF recommended against the use of PSA based screening. Age, racial, region and marital status significantly affect the distribution of the proportion of initial stage prostate cancer.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zhang F. (2022). Change in Prostate Cancer Stage over Time. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH, ISBN 978-989-758-596-8, pages 308-313. DOI: 10.5220/0011368700003438

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ichih22,
author={Fei Zhang},
title={Change in Prostate Cancer Stage over Time},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,},
year={2022},
pages={308-313},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011368700003438},
isbn={978-989-758-596-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Health Big Data and Intelligent Healthcare - Volume 1: ICHIH,
TI - Change in Prostate Cancer Stage over Time
SN - 978-989-758-596-8
AU - Zhang F.
PY - 2022
SP - 308
EP - 313
DO - 10.5220/0011368700003438