Differences in treatment choices for localised prostate cancer diagnosed in private and public health services

Mark, Stephen; Rashid, Prem; Heathcote, Peter; Zargar Shoshtari, Kamran

doi:10.5694/mja2.51081

To the Editor: In the retrospective study by te Marvelde and colleagues,1 the proportions of men in public and private health services receiving radical prostatectomy and curative external beam radiation therapy were examined in a multivariable logistic regression analysis. However, only age, International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) tumour grade, and comorbidity were studied.

1 Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand
2 University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
3 Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD
4 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Correspondence: stephen@urology.co.nz

Competing interests:

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1. te Marvelde L, Milne RL, Hornby CJ, et al. Differences in treatment choices for localised prostate cancer diagnosed in private and public health services. Med J Aust 2020; 213: 411–417. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2020/213/9/differences-treatment-choices-localised-prostate-cancer-diagnosed-private-and
2. Hamdy FC, Donovan JL, Lane JA, et al. 10‐Year outcomes after monitoring, surgery, or radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer. N Engl J Med 2016; 375: 1415–1424.

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