Programs Prostate
Prostate Active Surveillance
Optimizing treatment appropriateness for patients with favorable risk prostate cancer
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What is the MUSIC Active Surveillance Initiative?
Goal: Provide guidance on patient selection for active surveillance and best practices for surveillance protocols, with the goal of optimizing follow-up testing and patient management.
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- Optimize the consideration of active surveillance for patients with favorable risk prostate cancer.
- Increase rates of follow-up testing for better management of patients on surveillance.
What we do:
Enhance the management of men with favorable-risk prostate cancer through measuring our progress and providing feedback for improvement to our members.
Primary Care Provider Role
Primary Care Providers (PCPs), in addition to urologists, play a critical role in ensuring prostate cancer patients on Active Surveillance receive the recommended follow-up testing. To learn more and access PCP specific resources, please click here.
Past Work:
Roadmap for Management of Men With Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer
- MUSIC developed a systematic approach, or roadmap, for the management of men with favorable-risk, early-stage prostate cancer.
- The roadmap was divided into two distinct phases that begin at the time of diagnosis:
- Consideration Phase: Steps to take while considering AS and
- Surveillance Phase: A roadmap for how to perform AS.
- The Roadmap was meant to serve as a framework for determining when a patient is a candidate for surveillance, final decisions about the best treatment option for any patient remain, of course, at the discretion of the patient and their urologist.
