"It Gives Me Peace of Mind So I Can Focus on Healing": Views on Advance Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients.

The period of time before an elective operation may be an opportune time to engage older adults in advance care planning (ACP). Past interventions have not been readily incorporated into surgical workflows leaving a need for ACP tools that are generalizable, easy to implement, and effective. This is a qualitative study.

High-risk prostate cancer in the United States, 1990-2007.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe national trends in presentation, management, and outcomes for men with high risk prostate cancer.

Methods: Data were abstracted from CaPSURE; 10,808 men were diagnosed between 1990 and 2007 and had complete clinical data. High-risk was defined according to the D'Amico criteria; a more restrictive definition assigned clinical stage T2c to intermediate rather than high risk.

Contemporary trends in low risk prostate cancer: risk assessment and treatment.

Purpose: We updated national risk trends in prostate cancer with a focus on low risk tumors, reexamined trends in primary treatment for low risk tumors and substratified patients at low risk based on pretreatment clinical data.

Materials And Methods: Data were abstracted from the CaPSURE registry. A total of 10,385 men were diagnosed between 1990 and 2006 with localized disease.