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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2021 Jun 28;206(5):1157–1165. doi: 10.1097/JU.0000000000001941

Table 2.

AS followup characteristics of patients with GG1 disease at time of enrollment into National Cancer Institute AS program

Total (103 pts) Unilat (72 pts) Bilat (31 pts) p Value

Median mos on AS (IQR) 34 (23.5–52.5) 36.5 (27.75–57.25) 25 (14–42) 0.0046*
Followup biopsies:
 Total No. 203 145 56
 Median (IQR) 2 (1–3) 2 (1–3) 2 (1–2) 0.35
 1 (%) 48 (46.6) 34 (23.45) 15 (26.79) 0.99
 2 (%) 25 (24.27) 14 (9.66) 11 (19.64) 0.14
 3 (%) 20 (19.42) 16 (11.03) 3 (5.36) 0.22
 >4 (%) 10 (9.71) 8 (5.52) 2 (3.57) 0.71
Median mos time between each biopsy (IQR) 16 (12–27) 16 (12–29) 15 (12–25) 0.44
Median mos time between each MRI (IQR) 13 (12–16) 13 (12–16) 13 (12–15) 0.85
No. pts with AS grade progression on followup biopsy (%):
 Total 49 (47.5) 30 (41.67) 19 (61.29) 0.11
 Upgrade on Sbx only 9 (18.4) 4 (13.3) 5 (26.3) 0.17
 Upgrade on Tbx only 14 (28.6) 12 (40.0) 2 (10.5) 0.29
 Upgrade on both 26 (53.1) 14 (46.7) 12 (63.2) 0.07
*

Mann-Whitney U test, p <0.05.

Chi-squared statistic.