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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Urol. 2022 Sep 16;83(2):112–120. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2022.08.010

Table 1 –

Overall cohort demographics broken down by assay success (≥1 CTC copy number profile generated for CTCs and clinical report generated for tissue)

CTC success Tissue
success
Concordance
cohort
All patients
Sample size (n) 115(83) 107 (78) 91 (66) 138 (100)
Age (yr) 68 (62–74) 68(62–74) 68 (62–74) 67(62–74)
Laboratory assessments PSA (ng/dl) 28.5 (6.5–166.5) 34.2 (7.7–152.1) 32.3 (7.3–165.5) 28.2 (7.5–151.1)
ALP (U/l) 121 (76–215) 112 (75–182) 112 (74–192) 117 (76–190)
LDH (U/l) 246 (201–305) 236 (201–324) 247 (203–329) 238 (194–305)
Treatment exposures Prior mCRPC Tx line 1 (0–2) 1 (0–2) 1 (0–2) 1 (0–2)
Prior ARSi (n) 73 (64) 73 (68) 62 (68) 85 (62)
Prior taxane (n) 33 (29) 35 (33) 30 (33) 38 (28)
Disease compartments with metastasis Bone (n) 93 (81) 82 (77) 69 (76) 112 (81)
Bone only (n) 17 (15) 10 (9.3) 4 (4.4) 19 (14)
LN (n) 89 (77) 86 (80) 72 (79) 107 (78)
Liver (n) 24 (21) 26 (24) 23 (25) 29 (21)
Lung (n) 11 (9.6) 11(10) 9 (9.9) 13 (9.4)
Prostate/other (n) 31 (27) 30 (28) 27 (289) 35 (25)
Biopsy site Bone (n) 30 (26) 19 (18) 15 (17) 38 (28)
LN (n) 55 (48) 56 (52) 48 (53) 64 (46)
Liver (n) 17 (15) 20 (19) 17 (19) 22 (16)
Lung (n) 5 (4.3) 4 (3.7) 4 (4.4) 5 (3.6)
Prostate/other (n) 8 (7.0) 8 (7.5) 7 (7.7) 9 (6.5)

ALP = alkaline phosphatase; ARSi = androgen receptor signaling inhibitor; CTC = circulating tumor cell; LDH = lactate dehydrogenase; LN = lymph node; mCRPC = metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer; PSA = prostate-specific antigen; Tx = treatment.

Statistics shown are median (interquartile range) for continuous variables and count (%) for discrete variables.