Hospital Stays for Prostate Cancer, 2004. Statistical Brief No. 30

摘要

In the United States, prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men, second only to lung cancer. After basal cell carcinoma, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis for men. Nearly one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Currently, about two million men are living with prostate cancer in the U.S. Although most treatment of prostate cancer occurs in the outpatient setting, a significant portion of care is provided in the hospital, especially for surgical treatment. This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on the treatment of prostate cancer in U.S. hospitals in 2004. The utilization and cost of hospital stays for prostate cancer are compared with all hospital stays for males. Age and payer differences among these hospital stays are also presented. Finally, commonly performed procedures used to treat prostate cancer and inpatient use of these procedures are examined. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.