Table 5. bPFS rates of prostatectomy techniques in previous reports.
| bPFS at 3 years (%) |
bPFS at 5 years (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | No. of patients | pT2 | pT3a | pT3b | pT2 | pT3a | pT3b |
| LRP | |||||||
| Guillonneau et al.18 | 1 000 | 90.4 | 77.1 | 44.1 | — | — | — |
| Rassweiler et al. 22 | 500 | 95.2 | 74.1 | 69.0 | 89.5 | 81.2 | 54.5 |
| Salomon et al. 23 | 137 | 90.4 | 56.8 | — | — | — | — |
| Hara et al. 24 | 136 | 91.8 | 66.8 | 44.9 | — | — | — |
| Present series | 126 | 90.0 | 61.0 | 43.0 | — | — | — |
| ORP | |||||||
| Catalona and Smith 27 | 1 778 | 92.5 | 78.0 | 47.5 | 87.5 | 65.9 | 30.0 |
| Swindle et al. 28 | 1 209 | — | — | — | 93.7 | 80.0 | — |
| Hull et al. 29 | 1 000 | — | — | — | 94.9 | 76.3 | 37.4 |
Abbreviations: bPFS, biochemical progression-free survival; LRP, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy; ORP, open radical prostatectomy.