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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2013 Jun 14;191(1):60–67. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2013.06.021

Table 2.

Preoperative characteristics of men at NCCN very low risk with insignificant tumors and those reclassified with significant tumors

White
AA
Insignificant Significant p Value Insignificant Significant p Value
No. pts (%) 63 (70.8) 26 (29.2) <0.001* 34 (39.1) 53 (60.9) <0.001*
Mean age 56.6 58.8 0.949 57.1 59.0 0.338
Median ng/ml PSA (IQR) 4.4 (3.4, 5.7) 4.4 (3.0, 5.0) 0.459 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)* 4.4 (3.0, 6.0) 4.7 (3.7, 5.7) 0.617 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)
Median gm prostate size (IQR) 49.9 (35.2, 57.0) 44.4 (30.6, 53.4) 0.194 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test) 46.0 (36.2, 63.0) 48.0 (27.8, 56.0) 0.070 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)
Median ng/ml/gm PSAD (IQR) 0.09 (0.06, 0.12) 0.08 (0.07, 0.10) 0.773 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test) 0.07 (0.06, 0.10) 0.09 (0.08, 0.12) 0.003 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)
No. pos cores (%): 0.009 0.021
  1 43 (68.3) 10 (38.5) 24 (70.6) 24 (45.3)
  2 20 (31.7) 16 (61.5) 10 (29.4) 29 (54.7)
Median % Ca/core (IQR) 10.0 (5.0, 25.0) 10.0 (5.0, 30.0) 0.685 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test) 10.0 (5.0, 30.0) 20.0 (5.0, 30.0) 0.137 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)
No. CAPRA (%): 0.065 0.760
  0–1 51 (81.0) 25 (96.2) 26 (76.5) 42 (79.2)
  2–3 12 (19.0) 1 (3.8) 8 (23.5) 11 (20.8)
No. family history (%) 28 (44.4) 13 (50.0) 0.633 16 (47.1) 20 (37.7) 0.389
Median kg/m2 BMI (IQR) 27.2 (24.8, 29.7) 27.3 (25.1, 29.0) 0.948 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test) 28.2 (26.1, 30.3) 27.3 (25.8, 30.1) 0.314 (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test)
*

White men with significant tumors vs AA men with significant tumors.