Assessment of pathological prostate cancer characteristics in men with favorable biopsy features on predominantly sextant biopsy.

  • Felix Chun
  • Nazareno Suardi
  • Umberto Capitanio
  • Claudio Jeldres
  • Sascha Ahyai
  • Markus Graefen
  • Alexander Haese
  • Thomas Steuber
  • Andreas Erbersdobler
  • Francesco Montorsi
  • Hartwig Huland
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The rate of insignificant prostate cancer (IPCa) is increasing. OBJECTIVES: To examine three end points in patients with a single, positive core and no high-grade prostate cancer (PCa) at biopsy, namely (1) rate of clinical IPCa at radical prostatectomy (RP), defined as organ-confined PCa with a Gleason score of 6 or lower and tumor volume

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
ISSN0302-2838
Publication statusPublished - 2008
pubmed 18499335