Adequacy of clinical guideline recommendations for patients with low-risk cancer managed with monitoring: Systematic review

Plain language summary: More people are diagnosed with low-risk cancer because of advances in technology and cancer awareness. Many of these cancers can be monitored instead of treated. Guidelines are an important tool that clinicians use to help them make monitoring decisions. We found that guidelines had different monitoring recommendations based on different kinds of evidence. Other than for prostate cancer, many guidelines relied on expert opinion to support their recommendations because there are no large trials that assess monitoring in other cancer sites.
Source: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research