Table I. Clinical information of patient cohorts.
Characteristic | Discovery |
Validation |
|
---|---|---|---|
PCTa | PCT | BPH | |
Total cases | 25 | 51 | 16 |
PSA (ng/ml) <10/>10 | 9/15b | 9/42 | 10/5c |
Gleason score <7 | 2 | 6 | |
Gleason score = 7 | 12 | 31 | |
Gleason score >7 | 11 | 14 | |
Localized/ locally advanced/metastatic | 17/4/3d | 32/16/3 |
a Paired adjacent noncancerous tissues were collected.
b One sample was lack of PSA information.
c One sample was lack of PSA information.
d One sample was lack of information related to grade malignancy.