Table 3.

Pathology outcomes

	Overall	Group 1	Group 2	p value
Target cores positive	158/228 (69.3 %)	76/106 (71.7 %)	82/122 (67.2 %)	0.476
Background cores positive	344/1881 (18.38 %)	101/876 (11.5 %)	243/1005 (24.2 %)	<0.001
Core mean length: range (median)	5.6–14.7 (10.35)	5.6–14.7 (10.15)	6.5–14.5 (10.5)	0.555
Final Gleason grade	(n = 76)	(n = 41)	(n = 48)	0.122
3 + 3	9 (11.8 %)	8 (9 %)	3 (3.4 %)
3 + 4	32 (42.1 %)	21 (23.6 %)	19 (21.3 %)
4 + 3	14 (18.4 %)	4 (4.5 %)	12 (13.4 %)
8	5 (6.6 %)	3 (3.4 %)	3 (3.4 %)
9	15 (19.7 %)	5 (5.6 %)	10 (11.2 %)
10	1 (1.4 %)	0 (0 %)	1 (1.1 %)

Group 1: target biopsy cores show higher Gleason grade; Group 2: target sector biopsy cores show equal or higher Gleason grade. Overall “final Gleason grade” listed as highest Gleason score per patient