Engaging Newly Diagnosed Men About Cancer Treatment Options
Engaging Newly Diagnosed Men About Cancer Treatment Options
This research is being done to better understand how a new lab test called the Oncotype DX
 Prostate Cancer Assay may impact what treatment men decide to get and how they feel and think
 about their choice of treatment. The study will compare men who receive this new lab test
 with men who receive the usual counseling given to men after they get a new diagnosis of
 prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is sometimes slow-growing and sometimes fast-growing.
 Healthcare providers are searching for better ways to predict how each tumor will behave so
 that each man can make a better decision about when to receive treatment. The Oncotype DX lab
 test uses leftover prostate biopsy tissue to generate a Genomic Prostate Score (GPS). The GPS
 is related to the risk of a fast-growing cancer being discovered if surgery is performed to
 remove a man's prostate. The goal of this study is to find out if this test helps men when
 they are deciding how their prostate cancer will be treated. Treatment options include
 surgery to remove the prostate, radiation therapy, or an approach called "active
 surveillance" in which there is no immediate therapy and the tumor is watched using prostate
 specific antigen (PSA) tests and repeat biopsies.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer who are categorized as Very Low, Low, or
 Intermediate risk by NCCN criteria;

 -  Are age 76 or younger

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Men who are categorized as High or Very High risk by NCCN criteria;

 -  Men who have already received counseling from their urologist about their treatment
 options and have decided to undergo treatment, active surveillance, or watchful
 waiting;

 -  Men age 77 or older