Prevalence, severity, and chronicity of pain and general health-related quality of life in patients with localized prostate cancer

The high prevalence of severe and chronic pain in cancer patients before scheduled radical prostatectomy - combined with considerable disability effects and markedly reduced quality of life necessitate a short routine screening-analysis of the severity spectrum of pain and psychopathology. Patient self-rated pain chronicity staging and psychological distress analysis will allow a disorder severity-guided treatment and the prevention of suffering and additional new chronic post-surgical pain.