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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2014 Oct 14;85(1):155–160. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2014.08.014

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics and biopsy outcomes, JHH Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance cohort, 1994–2012

Caucasian African-American p

N 615 39 -

Median age (years) (IQR) 65.6 (61.9, 68.8) 65.8 (62.1, 71.1) 0.346

Median BMI (kg/m2) (IQR) 26.3 (24.4, 28.7) 27.1 (25.7, 30.4) 0.013

Median PSA at diagnosis (ng/ml) (IQR) 4.4 (3.1, 5.6) 4.2 (2.2, 5.4) 0.255

Median PSA density at diagnosis (ng/ml/cc) (IQR) 0.09 (0.06, 0.11) 0.07 (0.06, 0.09) 0.058

Gleason at diagnosis
≤6
615 (100%) 39 (100%) -

Positive cores at diagnosis 0.099
1 450 (75.9%) 25(64.1%)
2 143 (24.1%) 14 (35.9%)

Total cores sampled at first AS biopsy (mean, median, (IQR)) 12.9, 12.0 (12.0, 12.0) 12.4, 12.0 (12.0, 12.5) 0.948

Maximum percent cancer per core at diagnosis (median, IQR) 2.0 (1.0, 10.0) 5.0 (1.0, 10.0) 0.641

Median PSA velocity (ng/ml/year) (IQR) 0.13 (−0.75, 1.15) 0.08 (−0.58, 1.45) 0.557

Median PSA doubling time (months) (IQR) 100.0 (38.9, 100.0) 100.0 (48.6, 100.0) 0.409

Location of first AS biopsy <0.001
 Johns Hopkins 100 (16.3%) 17 (43.6%)
 Outside center 515 (83.7%) 22 (56.4%)

Reclassification on biopsy
 Grade 99 (16.1%) 14 (35.9%) <0.001
 Volume 322 (52.4%) 19 (48.7%) 0.903
 Either 366 (59.5%) 27 (69.2%) 0.019
 Both 181 (29.4%) 15 (38.5%) 0.156

Reclassification to treatment 213 (34.6%) 17 (43.6%) 0.304§

Treatment subtypes 0.142
 Radical prostatectomy 108/213 (50.9%) 5/17 (29.4%)
 EBRT* +/− ADT** 93/213 (43.7%) 9/17 (52.9%)
 Brachytherapy 9/213 (4.2%) 2/17 (11.8%)
 Other 3/213 (1.4%) 1/17 (5.9%)

Median follow-up (months)
IQR
36.3 (18.4, 61.3) 30.5 (16.4, 59.1) 0.536

Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney rank-sum p-value

Competing risks regression p-value (unadjusted)

§

Log-rank p-value

*

External beam radiotherapy

**

Androgen deprivation therapy