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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 176-181Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-014-0696-0
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Prostate cancer; High-risk; Prostate-specific antigen density; Advanced prostate cancer; Biochemical recurrence-free survival
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24791631] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Background Patients with advanced local-stage, high-grade prostate cancer (Pca) and high pretreatment prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels have inferior outcomes compared to their counterparts with more favorable clinical characteristics. However, some patients exhibit favorable pathological features or experience long-term PSA-free survival after radical prostatectomy (RP). We retrospectively examined the ability of preoperative characteristics to predict pathological and oncological outcomes in high-risk Pca patients who underwent RP. Methods We examined data of 1,268 consecutive Pca patients treated with RP alone at 4 hospitals from the Michinoku Urological Cancer Study Group database. Preoperative predictors included age, PSA level, biopsy Gleason score, clinical T stage, and PSA density (PSAD). The outcome measures pathological T stage and PSA-free survival were evaluated by multivariate analysis. Results We identified 380 high-risk Pca patients, of which 44 % patients had extracapsular extension. Logistic regression analysis indicated that PSAD was an independent predictor of adverse pathologic stage. The 5-year PSA-free survival rates were 82.9 % for patients with PSAD <= 0.468 ng mL(-1) cm(-2) and 50.7 % for those with PSAD >0.468 ng mL(-1) cm(-2) (P < 0.0001). Multivariate analyses revealed that PSAD, cT, and the number of preoperative high-risk Pca criteria were independent predictors of PSA-free survival. Conclusions PSAD may be an independent predictor of advanced pathological features and biochemical recurrence in high-risk Pca patients treated with RP alone. PSAD may be used for further risk stratification of high-risk Pca patients.
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