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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2009 Feb 23;181(4):1635–1641. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2008.11.109

Table 2.

Predictors of Discontinuing Active Surveillance

# patients (%) Hazard Ratio (95% CI) p-value
PSA (log) (per ng/ml) --- 1.02 (0.90–1.15) 0.7

Age (per year) --- 0.99 (0.95–1.03) 0.8

Clinical stage
 T1a/b 20 (7%) 0.91 (0.32–2.57) 0.9
 T1c 198 (76%) REF
 T2a 39 (15%) 0.87 (0.36–2.07)

Prostate volume (ultrasound or MRI)
 <30 cc 52 (24%) REF 0.6
 30–50 cc 74 (34%) 0.59 (0.23–1.53)
 >50 cc 90 (42%) 0.75 (0.32–1.71)

Repeat biopsy with cancer
 No 159 (61%) REF
 Yes 103 (39%) 2.23 (1.23–4.06) 0.007

Total cores from both biopsies (per core) --- 1.02 (0.99–1.06) 0.25

Total positive cores from both biopsies
 1–2 178 REF 0.002
 3–4 42 1.4 (1.11–1.94)
 5–6 8 6.3 (1.72–15.36)