“Developing Provocative Questions: The Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Research Initiative.”
This 2-day virtual conference held on Dec. 13 and Dec. 16 is brought to you by the University of Maryland and others, with funding support from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). It is designed as a consensus-building initiative across multiple stakeholder groups (patients, clinicians, and academic researchers) to bring the communities together and discuss - in a structured way - challenges associated with the clinical use of active surveillance (AS) in management of favorable-risk forms of prostate cancer, and to identify a prioritized list of unanswered questions in the so-called PICOT (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, and Time) format. The core objectives are to identify well-formatted questions amenable to well-structured research projects AND to bring together interested parties to work in a collaborative manner to address those questions, while continuing to think about the longer-term needs for research into AS.