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. 2008 Dec 16;100(1):170–173. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604834

Table 1. Incidental prostate cancer, non-incidental prostate cancer and total number of transurethral resections/open adenoma enucleationsa among men in Sweden, 1970 and 2003.

  Incidental prostate cancer
Non-incidental prostate cancer
TURP or OAE
  N % N % N %
Age
 <55 123 (0.5) 2462 (2.2) 708 (0.9)
 55–64 2157 (9.3) 17740 (15.8) 8931 (11.6)
 65–74 9085 (39.0) 43060 (38.4) 30854 (40.2)
 75–84 10114 (43.4) 40769 (36.3) 31163 (40.6)
 85+ 1809 (7.8) 8173 (7.3) 5122 (6.7)
             
Years
 1970–79 2627 (11.3) 13045 (11.6) 12324 (16.1)
 1980–86 6693 (28.7) 17116 (15.3) 20793 (27.1)
 1987–90 4961 (21.3) 13311 (11.9) 14409 (18.8)
 1991–93 3349 (14.4) 12480 (11.1) 10106 (13.2)
 1994–98 2795 (12.0) 20270 (18.1) 9790 (12.8)
 1999–2003 2863 (12.3) 35982 (32.1) 9356 (12.2)
             
Time in hospital
 1–3 days 5675 (24.4) NA NA 17929 (23.4)
 4–7 days 10997 (47.2) NA NA 34758 (45.3)
 8–14 days 4175 (17.9) NA NA 14964 (19.5)
 2–4 weeks 1844 (7.9) NA NA 6655 (8.7)
 4+ weeks 592 (2.5) NA NA 2423 (3.2)
             
Procedures (N=)a
 0 0 (0.0) 82389 (73.4) NA NA
 1 18007 (77.3) 23689 (21.1) NA NA
 2 4118 (17.7) 4719 (4.2) NA NA
 3 864 (3.7) 1062 (0.9) NA NA
 4+ 299 (1.3) 345 (0.3) NA NA
             
Status at end of study
 Alive 5138 (22.1) 39527 (35.2) NA NA
 Death from other causes 11850 (50.9) 35469 (31.6) NA NA
 Death from CaP 6300 (27.1) 37208 (33.2) NA NA
             
Follow up
 Time in years, mean (s.d.) 6.1 (4.7) 4.3 (4.0) NA NA
a

Out of 76 778 procedures, 4456 (5.8%) were open adenoma enucleations and 72 322 transurethral resections of the prostate.