Table 1.

Characteristics of prostate cancer case patients (n = 1260)^*

Characteristic	Case patients
Age at blood collection (y), mean (SD)	64.4 (7.8)
Age at diagnosis (y), mean (SD)	69.5 (7.5)
Stage, No. (%)†
T1, T2 (N0, M0)	1010 (86)
T3a (N0, M0)	92 (8)
T3b (N0, M0)	43 (4)
T4 (N0, M0)	1 (0)
N1	15 (1)
M1	15 (1)
Gleason grade, No. (%)‡
2 to 6	646 (56)
7: 3 + 4 or no major score defined	275 (24)
7: 4 + 3	110 (9)
8 to 10	129 (11)
Deaths or metastases due to prostate cancer, No. (%)	114 (9)
Prostate cancer deaths without recorded date of metastasis	68
Metastases to bone or organs on follow-up	31
Metastases at diagnosis	15
Time to diagnosis from blood draw (y), median (IQR)	5.2 (2.9–7.5)
Time to lethal prostate cancer (death or metastases) from diagnosis (y), median (IQR)	5.2 (3.1–8.4)

^*IQR = interquartile range; SD = standard deviation.

^†Data for stage missing for 84 subjects.

^‡Data for Gleason grade missing for 100 subjects.