Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for about 13.5% of all urological tumors. Healthcare research analyzes whether treatment recommendations from controlled studies or guidelines are being implemented in routine care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe German Society of Uro-Oncologists ("Deutsche Uro-Onkologen e.V.", d-uo) provides a national registry for urothelial cancer (UroNat) and a national registry for prostate cancer (ProNAT).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAt the beginning of 2017, the German Society of Uro-Oncologists (d-uo) had the idea of designing a documentation platform that would enable d-uo members to report cancer cases to the cancer registry and transfer data to d-uo's own database - without a double effort. The cancer registry reimburses the first notification of a tumour with €18. As the only provider, d-uo reimburses its members for the documentation effort associated with the additional notification to d-uo with a further €18.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe current cancer registry notification, which was introduced in Germany as a mandatory institution in 2015, has its starting point in the National Cancer Plan of 2008. Other milestones include the Federal Cancer Registry Data Act (2009), the Cancer Early Detection and Registry Act (2013), the Uniform Oncological Basic Data Set (2014/2021) with its modules (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patients with bone metastasis due to prostate cancer often present allover reduced bone mineral density. Additionally, patients with bone metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have a relevant risk for skeletal-related events (SRE). We herein present real-world data (RWD) regarding osteoprotection in mCRPC patients with bone metastasis treated by German urologists in private practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF