232 Background: To compare the racial and ethnic variations in baseline health-related quality of life (HRQOL) scores among men newly-diagnosed with prostate cancer prior to their prostate cancer treatment. Methods: Male members of the Kaiser Permanente of Southern California (KPSC) health plan, newly-diagnosed with prostate cancer, completed the five-domain specific Expanded Prostate Index Composite (EPIC-26) health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire between March 1, 2011 and August 31, 2013 (n=2,225). The five EPIC-26 domain scores (sexual, bowel, hormonal, urinary incontinence and urinary irritation) were compared across racial and ethnic subgroups and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to assess the association, adjusting for socio-demographic and clinical characteristics. Results: Within each racial and ethnic subgroup,higher baseline HRQOL scores were seen on the bowel, hormonal, urinary incontinence and urinary irritation domains (median score range: 87.5 – 100) as compared to the sexual domain (median score range: 49.3 – 62.5). Asian or Pacific Islander men were less likely to be above the sample median on the sexual (OR=0.51; 95% CI [0.36, 0.74]; p<0.001) and urinary incontinence domains (OR=0.65; 95% CI [0.46, 0.92]; p=0.015) as compared to the non-Hispanic white men. No additional statistically significant differences (p<0.05) were identified. Conclusions: These data suggest that few differences exist in baseline HRQOL scores across racial and ethnic subgroups among men newly-diagnosed with prostate cancer in an integrated health care organization. This finding provides important insight into the pre-treatment HRQOL status among these men with which to interpret HRQOL changes during and after prostate cancer treatment.
REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER