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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2013 Mar 7;81(4):831–835. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2012.12.046

Table 2.

Rate of upstaging and upgrade according to active surveillance protocol stratified by race/ethnicity

Variables Upstaging (%) P Value Upgrading (%) P Value Upstaging and/or Upgrading (%) P Value
USCF criteria .067 .662 .458
  AA men (N = 196) 31 (15.8) 64 (32.7) 73 (37.2)
  WA men (N = 191) 18 (9.4) 58 (30.4) 64 (33.5)
NCCN criteria .037 .449 .27
  AA men (N = 124) 24 (19.4) 49 (39.5) 57 (46.0)
  WA men (N = 148) 15 (10.1) 51 (34.5) 58 (39.2)

Abbreviations as in Table 1.