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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: BJU Int. 2009 Jul 8;105(2):185–190. doi: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2009.08698.x

TABLE 2.

Pathological characteristics and long-term followup of 136 patients treated with radical prostatectomy in the MSKCC phase III trial

RP only (n = 64) NHT and RP (n = 72)
Organ confined disease,* n (%) 51 (80) 61 (85)
Extracapsular extension, n (%) 13 (20) 10 (14)
Seminal vesicle invasion, n (%) 4 (6) 3 (4)
Lymph node metastasis, n (%) 2 (3) 1 (1)
Positive surgical margin, n (%) 24 (38) 14 (19)
Local recurrence 1 1
Metastases 3 3
Death from prostate cancer 0 1
Death from unknown causes 5 9
*

Defined as the absence of extracapsular extension, seminal vesicle invasion, or lymph node metastasis.

RP, radical prostatectomy; NHT, neoadjuvant hormone therapy