Prostate Cancer Registries: Current Status and Future Directions

Abstract

Context Disease-specific registries that enroll a considerable number of patients play a major role in prostate cancer (PCA) research. Objective To evaluate available registries, describe their strengths and limitations, and discuss the potential future role of PCA registries in outcomes research. Evidence acquisition We performed a literature review of the Medline, Embase, and Web of Science databases. The search strategy included the terms prostate cancer, outcomes, statistical approaches, population-based cohorts, registries of outcomes, and epidemiological studies, alone or in combination. We limited our search to studies published between January 2005 and January 2015. Evidence synthesi..