Reducing Overtreatment of Prostate Cancer Patients: Revisiting the European Association of Urology Pretreatment Risk Group Classification Using Long-term Follow-up Data from the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer Rotterdam

This study shows that while a commonly used pretreatment risk classification for prostate cancer predict disease prognosis accurately, an alternative system based on active surveillance eligibility criteria identifies many more men as having a low risk. Adopting this classification could enhance the acceptance and use of active surveillance, reducing unnecessary treatments.