Journal article
The psychological aftermath of prostate cancer treatment choices: A comparison of depression, anxiety and quality of life outcomes over the 12 months following diagnosis
JW Couper, AW Love, JV Dunai, GM Duchesne, S Bloch, AJ Costello, DW Kissane
Medical Journal of Australia | AUSTRALASIAN MED PUBL CO LTD | Published : 2009
Abstract
Objective: To assess the psychological impact of the different treatments for localised prostate cancer (PCA). Design, participants and setting: Observational, prospective study of consecutive patients with PCA attending clinics in public hospitals and private practices in metropolitan Melbourne between 1 April 2001 and 30 December 2005. Data were collected at initial diagnosis of histologically confirmed localised PCA, and close to the commencement of definitive treatment (Time 1), and 12 months later (Time 2). Patients were stratified according to treatment type (radical prostatectomy [RP], hormone therapy [HT] or other early treatment including radiation therapies [OET]). Patients who ele..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Our study was supported by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation. These funding bodies had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation or writing of this article. We would like to thank all of the patients who kindly participated in this study and the clinicians who recruited them.