Life expectancy estimation in older men using the prostate cancer comorbidity index in VA & SEER-Medicare cohorts.

Background Guidelines endorse specific life expectancy (LE) cutoffs for triage of definitive local treatment of prostate cancer, but the lack of validated, prostate cancer-specific LE prediction tools limits incorporation of LE in management decisions. Objective We sought to provide long-term LE pre...

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Publicado en:	Age & Ageing Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 1 - 10
Autores principales:	Heard, John, Luu, Michael, Thomas, I-Chun, Leppert, John, Daskivich, Timothy
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2026
Materias:	United States United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Life expectancy Medicare Age distribution Retrospective studies Aging Longevity Old age Medical protocols Pearson correlation (Statistics) Research funding Health insurance reimbursement Scientific observation Questionnaires Kruskal-Wallis Test Prostate tumors Severity of illness index Reporting of diseases Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Multivariate analysis Longitudinal method Kaplan-Meier estimator Log-rank test Medical records Acquisition of data Cancer patient psychology Survival analysis (Biometry) Comparative studies Data analysis software Confidence intervals Comorbidity Nosology Overall survival Proportional hazards models
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