Tumour volume and high grade tumour volume are the best predictors of pathologic stage and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.

  • Felix Chun
  • Alberto Briganti
  • Claudio Jeldres
  • Andrea Gallina
  • Andreas Erbersdobler
  • Thorsten Schlomm
  • Jochen Walz
  • Christian Eichelberg
  • Georg Salomon
  • Alexander Haese
  • Eike Eichelberg
  • Sascha Ahyai
  • François Bénard
  • Hartwig Huland
  • Markus Graefen
  • Pierre I Karakiewicz

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Our goal was to examine to what extent tumour volume (TV) and percentage of high grade tumour volume (%HGTV) affect the rate of positive surgical margins and the rate of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: TV and %HGTV were routinely planimetrically quantified in a cohort of 780 consecutive patients. Mean follow-up was 46.7 months. Multivariable regression models addressed two separate endpoints: positive surgical margins and biochemical recurrence. The increase in model predictive accuracy related to the addition of TV and %HGTV to radical prostatectomy stage and grade was assessed, after 200 bootstrap resamples to reduce overfit bias. RESULTS: In multivariable logistic regression models addressing positive surgical margins rate, predictive accuracy increased by 1.9% (p

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number3
ISSN0959-8049
Publication statusPublished - 2007
pubmed 17222546