Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Oncology-Hematology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-7680, USA.
The aim of this study was to examine the epidemiology, natural history, treatment pattern, and predictors of long-term survival of signet ring prostate carcinoma (SRPC) patients based on the analysis of the national Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.
Between 1980 and 2004, a total of 93 patients with pathologically confirmed SRPC were identified. The mean age was 70 ± 11 years old. 82.8% of the patients had poorly or undifferentiated histology grade. 13.9% patients presented with metastatic disease. The 1-, 3-, and 5-year cancer-specific survival rates were 94.6%, 89.6%, and 83.8%, respectively. Using multivariate Cox proportional hazard model, younger age (40-50 versus age >70 yrs, P = .01), advanced tumor stage (distant versus local/regional, P = .02), and earlier diagnosis year (before 1995 versus after 1995, P = .01) were predictors of worse cancer specific survival.
Despite more aggressive cancer therapy, younger SRPC patients had a worse cancer specific survival. This information could be useful when counseling these patients and emphasizes the need for new strategies and molecular-based therapeutic approaches for younger patients with SRPC.
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Reference: Prostate Cancer. 2011;2011:216169.
doi: 10.1155/2011/216169
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22110982
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