Table 1.

Basal characteristics of 133 patients with prostate carcinoma

Characteristics	No biochemical recurrence (n = 86)		Biochemical recurrence (n = 47)		p
	N° (%)		N° (%)
Age (year)					0.25
<65	52 (39.5)	64.87 ± 6.47	28 (40.4)	66.21 ± 6.27
>65	34 (60.5)		19 (59.6)
Tumor stage					<0.0001
T2	79 (91.9)		27 (57.4)
T3–4	7 (8.1)		20 (42.6)
Score gleason					<0.003
2–4	14 (16.3)		4 (8.5)
5–6	50 (58.1)		17 (36.2)
7–10	22 (25.6)		26 (55.3)
PSA (ng/ml)a					0.051
<10	65 (75.6)		28 (59.6)
>10	21 (24.4)		19 (40.4)

Mean age (±SD) in each group (with recurrence and with no recurrence) is shown

^aPSA level before patients were operated