TABLE 3.
Cumulative risk of having unfavourable pathological characteristics associated with carrying any one or any two to three risk alleles (rs1447295 [8q24], rs1571801 [9q33.2] and rs 11228565 [11q13]) in men who would have been eligible for an AS protocol
Number of prostate cancer risk alleles carried | Favourable pathological characteristics, % (n) | Unfavourable pathological characteristics, % (n) | Odds ratio | 95% CI | P |
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None | 47.6 (79) | 22.5 (11) | Reference | Reference | - |
Any 1 | 44.6 (74) | 51.0 (25) | 2.4 | 1.2-5.3 | 0.03 |
Any 2-3 | 7.8 (13) | 26.5 (13) | 7.2 | 2.7-19.4 | 0.0001 |