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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 24.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Mar 10;15(6):2091–2097. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-2036

Table 1. Baseline characteristics of 77 patients (pts) with metastatic prostate cancer.

Characteristic Number (% or
interquartile range)
Age, years 70 (63–77)
PSA at diagnosis, ng/mL 21.1 (7.7–95.1)
Initial treatment:
  Radical prostatectomy 24 (31%)
  Radiation therapy to the prostate 16 (21%)
  No treatment 37 (48%)
Sites of metastasis:
  Bone only 25 (33%)
  Lymph node and bone 31 (40%)
  Lymph node only 6 (8%)
  Visceral disease 14 (18%)
  Bone and soft tissue (other than lymph node) 1 (1%)
CTC counts/7.5 mL blood – median (IQR) 29 (7–89)
PSA, ng/mL – median (IQR) 188.2 (65.9–573.4)
FISH probe Number of pts samples
hybridized
Number (%) of pts with FISH
results

AR only 13 13 (100%)
AR + MYC 15 11 (73%)
MYC + 8p 23 18 (78%)
AR + MYC + 8p 26 25 (96%)
Total 77 67 (87%)