Table 4. Comparison of the University of California Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index (UCLA PCI) scores for patients in the radical prostatectomy (RP) or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) groups, with and without biochemical recurrence.
| Patients without recurrence (mean index) |
Patients with recurrence (mean index) |
P-value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (n = 86) | RP group (n = 41) | EBRT group (n = 45) | Total (n = 30) | RP group (n = 21) | EBRT group (n = 9) | Total | RP group | EBRT group | |
| Urinary function | 83.0 ± 29.5 | 71.8 ± 35.0 | 93.3 ± 18.0 | 77.9 ± 33.8 | 71.2 ± 37.2 | 93.5 ± 15.3 | 0.100 | 0.880 | 0.949 |
| Urinary bother | 84.7 ± 25.6 | 79.9 ± 29.7 | 89.2 ± 20.5 | 83.6 ± 27.8 | 81.3 ± 31.3 | 88.9 ± 18.2 | 0.847 | 0.868 | 0.966 |
| Bowel function | 90.6 ± 20.9 | 91.7 ± 20.0 | 89.7 ± 21.7 | 89.5 ± 20.8 | 91.2 ± 19.1 | 85.7 ± 24.1 | 0.621 | 0.851 | 0.320 |
| Bowel bother | 90.9 ± 18.4 | 90.6 ± 20.2 | 91.1 ± 17.0 | 87.5 ± 20.5 | 88.1 ± 20.3 | 86.1 ± 22.0 | 0.403 | 0.644 | 0.447 |
| Sexual function | 11.3 ± 20.8 | 11.9 ± 22.3 | 10.7 ± 19.3 | 8.7 ± 20.5 | 9.68 ± 20.9 | 6.31 ± 19.4 | 0.099 | 0.288 | 0.090 |
| Sexual bother | 67.6 ± 30.2 | 57.7 ± 31.5 | 77.6 ± 25.5 | 66.7 ± 38.5 | 57.1 ± 41.2 | 88.9 ± 18.2 | 0.891 | 0.958 | 0.216 |