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Project Number: | I01HX002126-01A1 |
Title: | Personalized Life Expectancy to Encourage High Value Prostate Cancer Care |
Principal Investigator: | John T. Leppert |
Location: | Palo Alto, CA |
Congressional District Code: | 14 |
Research Service: | Health Services R&D |
Project Period: | March 2017 - February 2021 |
FY 2021 Funding Amount: | $52,574 |
Total Award Amount (all years): |
$944,583 |
Abstract: |
View full abstract and other project information on NIH RePORTER Go To NIH RePORTER Excerpt: As an integrated system with access to granular and longitudinal data, the Veterans Health administration (VHA) is ideally positioned to advance the understanding of the life expectancy, to improve prostate cancer screening strategies, and to generate models of personalized risk-adjusted life expectancy estimates to provide critical information to inform prostate cancer treatment decisions. Veterans receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration may have higher prostate cancer risk due to... |