Individualizing Quality-of-Life Outcomes Reporting: How Localized Prostate Cancer Treatments Affect Patients With Different Levels of Baseline Urinary, Bowel, and Sexual Function

Abstract

The use of functional levels to stratify treatment-related outcomes by pretreatment functional status and to display the proportions of patients with improved, stable, or worsened function after treatment provides information that more specifically conveys the expected impact of treatment to patients choosing among localized prostate cancer treatments.