Table 3.

Clinical and pathological characteristics of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy with one positive core, and two or more positive cores at biopsy

	One positive core (n = 31)	Two or more positive cores (n = 56)	P
Age*	69.1 ± 5.6	68.8 ± 5.2	0.67
PSA*	12.5 ± 9.4	15.2 ± 14.0	0.021
Gleason score*	6.8 ± 1.6	7.3 ± 1.6	0.20
No. of positive cores*	1	3.7 ± 1.9	1.3 × 10-16
Pathological factor			0.038
≤ pT2b	21 (57%)	25 (44%)
≥ pT3a	10 (43%)	31 (56%)
pN0	30 (97%)	51 (91%)	0.31
pN1	1 (3%)	5 (9%)
cap (+)	10 (32%)	28 (44%)	0.11
pn (+)	8 (26%)	35 (51%)	0.0001
sv (+)	2 (7%)	12 (17%)	0.069
PSA failure	10 (32%)	20 (36%)	0.75

*Data represents the means ± SD.

Abbreviations: as described for Table 2B.