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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2010 Jun;183(6):2213–2218. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.017

Table 2. 5- and 7-year Prostate Cancer-Specific Survival Based on Surgical Margin Status in Men Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy Stratified by Stage and Grade.

5-year DSS
(95% CI)		 7-year DSS
(95% CI)
Negative Margin Positive Margin Negative Margin Positive Margin
pT2
 Lower Grade 99.8
(99.7 – 99.8)		 99.7
(99.5 – 99.8)		 99.6
(99.5 – 99.7)		 99.4
(99.0 – 99.6)
 Higher Grade 99.4
(99.1 – 99.6)		 99.0
(98.2 – 99.4)		 98.6
(98.1 – 99.0)		 97.3
(95.5 – 98.4)
pT3a
 Lower Grade 99.7
(99.3 – 99.8)		 99.2
(98.5 – 99.6)		 99.4
(98.8 – 99.7)		 98.9
(97.9 – 99.4)
 Higher Grade 98.3
(97.1 – 99.0)		 96.5
(95.1 – 97.5)		 97.6
(96.0 – 98.6)		 92.4
(89.7 – 94.5)