Table 3. Comparison of the University of California Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index (UCLA PCI) scores from the total patient population and from the risk subgroups for the radical prostatectomy (RP) and external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) groups.
| RP group (mean index) |
EBRT group (mean index) |
P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (n = 62) | Low-risk (n = 27) | Intermediate-risk (n = 22) | High-risk (n = 13) | Total (n = 54) | Low-risk (n = 9) | Intermediate-risk (n = 20) | High-risk (n = 25) | Total | Low-risk | Intermediate-risk | High-risk | |
| Urinary function | 71.6 ± 35.7 | 71.6 ± 36.4 | 63.6 ± 35.2 | 85.7 ± 30.7 | 93.6 ± 17.1 | 90.7 ± 19.5 | 93.9 ± 19.8 | 93.9 ± 14.7 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.050 |
| Urinary bother | 80.3 ± 30.0 | 78.7 ± 33.8 | 77.3 ± 28.8 | 89.6 ± 22.5 | 90.1 ± 19.3 | 80.6 ± 20.8 | 83.8 ± 26.0 | 96.9 ± 8.4 | 0.036 | 0.878 | 0.450 | 0.298 |
| Bowel function | 91.5 ± 19.6 | 92.4 ± 18.4 | 91.3 ± 20.2 | 90.2 ± 21.5 | 88.8 ± 22.4 | 83.3 ± 27.5 | 86.8 ± 27.5 | 92.9 ± 19.2 | 0.161 | 0.073 | 0.122 | 0.443 |
| Bowel bother | 89.8 ± 20.1 | 89.8 ± 21.1 | 90.5 ± 16.7 | 88.5 ± 24.2 | 89.8 ± 18.1 | 80.6 ± 24.3 | 88.8 ± 19.0 | 95.0 ± 12.5 | 0.983 | 0.280 | 0.759 | 0.375 |
| Sexual function | 11.1 ± 21.8 | 11.9 ± 22.8 | 14.5 ± 24.7 | 4.0 ± 10.2 | 9.1 ± 18.7 | 3.4 ± 9.1 | 10.2 ± 19.8 | 12.2 ± 21.3 | 0.116 | < 0.001 | 0.082 | < 0.001 |
| Sexual bother | 57.5 ± 34.8 | 57.7 ± 33.7 | 47.6 ± 34.4 | 73.1 ± 34.6 | 81.6 ± 24.1 | 78.6 ± 26.7 | 79.2 ± 28.8 | 80.4 ± 21.3 | < 0.001 | 0.142 | 0.004 | 0.433 |