Section of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Virginia Mason Medical Center, 1100 Ninth Avenue, C7-URO, Seattle, WA 98101, USA.
We explored the long-term clinical outcomes including metastases-free survival and prostate cancer-specific survival (PCSS) in patients with pathologic Gleason 8-10 disease after radical prostatectomy (RP).
We report on 91 patients with PCSS data with a median followup of 8.2 years after RP performed between 1988 and 1997. Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier analysis were used to evaluate year of surgery, pathologic stage, and surgical margin status as predictors of PCSM.
Median age was 65 years (IQR: 61-9), and median PSA was 9.7 ng/ml (IQR: 6.1-13.4). Of all patients, 62 (68.9%) had stage T3 disease or higher, and 48 (52.7%) had a positive surgical margin. On multivariate analysis, none of the predictors were statistically significant. Of all patients, the predicted 10-year BCR-free survival, mets-free survival, and PCSS were 59% (CI: 53%-65%), 88% (CI: 84%-92%), and 94% (CI: 91%-97%), respectively.
We have demonstrated that cancer control is durable even 10 years after RP in those with pathologic Gleason 8-10 disease. Although 40% will succumb to BCR, only 6% of patients died of their disease. These results support the use of RP for patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer.
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Reference: Adv Urol. 2012;2012:428098.
doi: 10.1155/2012/428098
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 21941534
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