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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2011 May 15;128(10):2373–2381. doi: 10.1002/ijc.25570

Table 2.

Summary of PSA, PSA doubling time (12 definitions), and PSA velocity (10 definitions), calculated at the time of diagnosis.

Number of patients
with
calculable value
Median
(interquartile range)
or Frequency
(percentage)
Total PSA, ng/mL 594 (100%) 17 (9, 33)
Doubling Time, months
    MSKCC26 565 (95%) 6 (−5, 26)
    Shulman18 561 (94%) 4 (−3, 13)
    MD Anderson 216 553 (93%) 3 (−4, 12)
    MD Anderson 116 545 (92%) 2 (−4, 11)
    Ward21 350 (59%) 1 (−1, 2)
    Freedland14 327 (55%) 13 (0, 30)
    Egawa13 210 (35%) 22 (7, 45)
    Trapasso22 194 (33%) 1 (0, 3)
    Stephenson20 135 (23%) 0 (−1, 2)
    Hanks15 112 (19%) 32 (8, 60)
    Smith19 59 (10%) 30 (16, 50)
    D’Amico12 40 (7%) 3 (1, 5)
Velocity, ng/mL/yr
    MSKCC26 594 (100%) 0.01 (−0.02, 0.05)
    Thompson25 589 (99%) 0.01 (−0.02, 0.05)
    D’Amico A4 492 (83%) 0.33 (−0.50, 1.45)
    D’Amico A >2 ng/mL/yr4 492 (83%) 105 (21%)
    Rozhansky23 369 (62%) 0.30 (−0.90, 2.03)
    Sengupta17 327 (55%) 0.02 (−0.01, 0.04)
    D’Amico B5 90 (15%) 0.35 (0.08, 0.90)
    D’Amico B >2 ng/mL/yr5 90 (15%) 8 (9%)
    Thiel24 82 (14%) 0.15 (0.02, 0.41)
    Smith19 59 (10%) 0.02 (0.01, 0.03)