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Localised prostate cancer usually comes with a real choice: surgery, radiotherapy, or monitoring the cancer rather than treating it. The options differ less in how long a man is likely to live than in what living will be like, because incontinence, bowel trouble and erectile dysfunction fall differently across them. That makes the decision a trade-off, and there is a way to measure how men make it. Show a man two described treatments at a time, each with its own survival gain and its own side effects, ask which he would take, and repeat until the pattern of his answers shows what he was willing to give up for what. Dozens of these studies have been run. They use different attributes, different levels and different statistical models, and they have never been read side by side, so nobody can say which trade-offs hold across them and which belong to one questionnaire. This project reads them together and reports what men consistently weigh most. The studies exist; reading them side by side is the work.
Read up on prostate cancer treatment and on how preference studies are run. Take one part of that literature, read the studies for it, build the table that goes with it, and write that section of the review.
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