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4. expectant management.mp.
5. deferred treatment.mp.
6. ((expectant$ adj5 manage$) or (conservative$ adj5 manage$) or (active adj5 surveillance) or
(watchful adj5 waiting) or (watch adj5 wait) or (watchful adj5 observation) or (active$ adj5
monitor$) or (defer$ adj5 treatment)).tw.
7. prostate cancer.mp. or exp Prostatic Neoplasms/
8. ((prostat$ adj5 neoplas$) or (prostat$ adj5 cancer$)).tw.
9. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6
10. 7 or 8
11. 9 and 10
12. limit 11 to English language
13. limit 12 to yr="1987-Current"
14. (expectant$ adj5 treatment).tw.
15. 10 and 14
16. limit 15 to yr="1987-Current"
17. 16 not 13

A.4 Search Strategy for the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Registry

We identified all studies with the words “prostate” OR “prostatic” in the database. The search
was performed on October 31, 2011. At that time the database contained records up to and
including 2010.

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