Prostate Cancer Awareness and Initiative for Screening in the European Union

Status

Enrolling by invitation

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06424275

Acronym

PRAISE-U

Enrollment

20000

Registered

2024-05-22

Start date

2024-06-01

Completion date

2026-04-01

Last updated

2025-08-15

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Prostate Cancer

Keywords

prostate cancer, early detection of prostate cancer, cancer screening, risk-based algorithm

Brief summary

PRAISE-U was initiated on the 1st of April 2023 and is set to last for three years. This collaborative effort involves 25 institutions across 12 countries, all driven by a shared objective: to rationalize prostate cancer screening in Europe and enhance patient outcomes. PRAISE-U advocates for EU member states to offer exceptional clinical standards, incorporating cutting-edge personalized approaches to enable timely detection of prostate cancer in individuals who can benefit from early treatment. To assess the functionality, feasibility, and long-term viability of a risk-based algorithm, the consortium will collaborate with pilot sites in Spain, Poland, Ireland, and Lithuania.

Detailed description

The project has several key deliverables that are instrumental in its success. In the early phase of the project, the consortium will prepare a living state-of-play document - a comprehensive review of diverse screening strategies for prostate cancer in the EU, as well their harm/benefit and cost effectiveness. At a later stage, clinical performance indicators of screening effectiveness will be established, and a protocol for implementation of population-based quality assured prostate cancer screening program will be developed. While the protocol will follow a standardized approach, it will also allow for flexibility to accommodate the unique characteristics of each country's healthcare system. The pilot studies will run for 12 months, and all collected data will be used to estimate pre-defined key performance indicators that will be included in the final report. This deliverable will be used to perform a thorough evaluation of how well the screening program worked during the pilot phase and how site characteristics and diagnostic algorithms are associated with performance. The reach, acceptability, and adoption of the screening programme, its cost-effectiveness, as well as attitudes of participants and physicians, will be the research outcomes of interest. The project aims to have short-term and long-term effects on prostate cancer screening in EU member states. In the short-term (1-3 years), the focus is on advancing population-based risk-adapted prostate cancer screening and increasing awareness among key stakeholders. This will be achieved by providing evidence-based information on the benefits and drawbacks of risk-adapted screening, leading to improved knowledge and future endorsement by healthcare professionals. In the medium-term (4-9 years), the goal is to reduce costs by eliminating ineffective opportunistic screening and implementing an organized risk-based screening algorithm. Ultimately, in the long-term (10+ years), the project aims to decrease the burden of prostate cancer and improve quality of life by reducing mortality rates and the number of advanced/metastatic cases through effective screening practices. PRAISE-U is an important step in assessing how screening for prostate cancer may reduce the burden of the disease for every man in the European Union.

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TESTRisk-based screening algorithm

Risk-based screening algorithm

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Age

50 Years to 69 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Age 50-69 years old.

Exclusion criteria

* Previous diagnosis of prostate cancer. * Unable to provide written informed consent. * Had prostate biopsy or MRI within the past six months.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Incidence of clinically significant prostate cancer in each pilot site (with clinically significant prostate cancer defined as ISUP grade group ≥2).	1 year	—
Invitation coverage	1 year	The proportion of eligible individuals from the target population personally invited for screening within a given time frame.
Examination coverage	1 year	The proportion of eligible individuals from the target population who had the recommended screening test within a given time frame
Participation rate	1 year	The proportion of invited individuals who have undergone a screening test within a given time- frame following an active invitation.
Retention rate	1 year	The proportion of eligible individuals re-screened after a negative screening within a specified interval.
Test result	1 year	The results of the screening test.
PPV of screening test to detect any prostate cancer (6.1) and clinically significant prostate cancers (6.2)	1 year	The proportion of individuals who have histopathology confirmed PCa to all those who had positive test results (with PSA result of \>3 ng/ml) (including healthy subjects who were incorrectly diagnosed to have prostate cancer)
False positive rate to detect any PCa (7.1) and clinically significant PCa (7.2)	1 year	The proportion of screened individuals who received a positive screening result in which no cancer was detected after workup and diagnostic procedures.
Compliance with risk assessment	1 year	The proportion of individuals from the screened population undergoing risk assessment (as per protocol of the programme).
Compliance with further assessment	1 year	The proportion of individuals referred for diagnostic work up based on elevated PSA and risk assessment (as per protocol of the programme) attending all workup and diagnostic procedures assigned.
Detection rate of PCa	1 year	The proportion of individuals with a screen positive test who underwent further assessment with histopathologically proven cancer detected \[expressed per 1,000 individuals screened\].
Compliance with treatment	1 year	The proportion of individuals with cancer diagnosed within the screening program referred for treatment who initiated treatment (including active surveillance, when applicable).
Complications in screening procedure	1 year	The proportion of individuals reporting at least one complication incurred during the screening procedure.
Opportunistic testing	1 year	The proportion of individuals screened outside the population-based screening programme.
Cause-specific mortality	1 year	The mortality from prostate cancer (primary cause of death only) per 100,000 target population in a defined 12-month period
Crude Incidence rate	1 year	The number of new cases of PCa arising in a specified population (expressed per 100,000) within a time frame of 12-months.\]
Interval cancer rate	1 year	The proportion of individuals with a negative screening test or a positive screening test but negative further assessment results who were diagnosed with prostate cancer prior to the next screening round.
Delay time	1 year	Time from PSA test sample collection to histopathological confirmation of a malignant diagnosis (further disaggregated by different procedures) to treatment initiation
Radiologist's assessment of MRI	1 year	Radiologist's assessment of MRI
Compliance with biopsy	1 year	Proportion of eligible men who underwent biopsy
Active surveillance	1 year	The proportion of patients recommended AS due to low/low-intermediate risk PCa who accepted and initiated AS.
Tumour grade distribution	1 year	Proportion of prostate cancers detected after positive screening test reported as ISUP grade (group) 1, 2, 3 and 4-5.

Countries

Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Spain

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026