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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur Urol. 2013 Mar 17;65(4):809–815. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2013.03.025

Table 3. Number and proportion of diagnosed cancers deemed clinically significant based on a variety of published definitions [23].

Definition Criteria Significant PCa, no. Men with significant PCa (n = 105), % Men with PCa deemed significant (n = 36), %
1 Epstein criteria 24 23 67
2 Gleason 3 + 4 or MCL ≥4 mm 26 25 72
3 Gleason 4 + 3 or MCL ≥6 mm 20 19 56
4 Gleason≥7 22 21 61
5 Gleason ≥8 11 10 31

PCa = prostate cancer; MCL = maximal core length.

Percentages in column 4 are based on the total population (n = 105), and those in column 5 are based on patients with PCa (n = 36). Clinically significant cancer based on definition 2.