OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of advancing age on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) after radical prostatectomy (RP).
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Overall, 205,551 patients with PCa diagnosed between 1988 and 2009 within the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database were included in the study. Patients were stratified according to age at diagnosis: ≤ 50, 51-60, 61-70, and ≥71 years. The 15-year cumulative incidence CSM rates were computed. Competing-risks regression models were performed to test the effect of age on CSM in the entire cohort, and for each grade (Gleason score 2-4, 5-7, and 8-10) and stage (pT2, pT3a, and pT3b) sub-cohorts.
RESULTS: Advancing age was associated with higher 15-year CSM rates (2.3 vs. 3.4 vs. 4.6 vs. 6.3% for patients aged ≤ 50 vs. 51-60 vs. 61-70 vs. ≥71 years, respectively; P < 0.001). In multivariable analyses, age at diagnosis was a significant predictor of CSM. This relationship was also observed in sub-analyses focusing on patients with Gleason score 5-7, and/or pT2 disease (all P ≤ 0.05). Conversely, age failed to reach the independent predictor status in men with Gleason score 2-4, 8-10, pT3a, and/or pT3b disease.
CONCLUSIONS: Advancing age increases the risk of CSM. However, when considering patients affected by more aggressive disease, age was not significantly associated with higher risk of dying from PCa. In high-risk patients, tumor characteristics rather than age should be considered when making treatment decisions.
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Gandaglia G, Karakiewicz PI, Abdollah F, Becker A, Roghmann F, Sammon JD, Kim SP, Perrotte P, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Trinh QD, Sun M. Are you the author?
Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; Division of Oncology/Unit of Urology, URI, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; Martiniclinic, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; Department of Urology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA; Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Urology, University of Montreal Health Centre, Montreal, Canada; Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Reference: Eur J Surg Oncol. 2014 May 22. pii: S0748-7983(14)00446-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2014.05.001
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24915856
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