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JOURNAL OF UROLOGY
Volume 173, Issue 6, Pages 1930-1934Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000158039.94467.5d
Keywords
prostatic neoplasms; biopsy; nomograms; validation studies
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- NCI NIH HHS [P50 CA092629] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose: We developed and validated a nomogram which predicts presence of prostate cancer (PCa) on needle biopsy. Materials and Methods: We used 3 cohorts of men who were evaluated with sextant biopsy of the prostate and whose presenting prostate specific antigen (PSA) was not greater than 50 ng/ml. Data from 4,193 men from Montreal, Canada were used to develop a nomogram based on age, digital rectal examination (DRE) and serum PSA. External validation was performed on 1,762 men from Hamburg, Germany. Data from these men were subsequently used to develop a second nomogram in which percent free PSA (%PSA) was added as a predictor. External validation was performed using 514 men from Montreal. Both nomograms were based on multivariate logistic regression models. Predictive accuracy was evaluated with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve and graphically with loess smoothing plots. Results: PCa was detected in 1,477 (35.2%) men from Montreal, 739 (41.9%) men from Hamburg and 189 (36.8%) men from Montreal. In all models all predictors were significant at 0.05. Using age, DRE and PSA external validation AUC was 0.69. Using age, DRE, PSA and %fPSA external validation AUC was 0.77. Conclusions: A nomogram based on age, DRE, PSA and %fPSA can highly accurately predict the outcome of prostate biopsy in men at risk for PCa.
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