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. 2016 Apr 14;10:633. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2016.633

Table 1. Baseline characteristics of men with PCa in our cohort as well as histopathology results, by upgrade status.

GS upgrade
(n = 56 34%)
GS no-upgrade
(n = 110 66%)
P-value
Mean age (SD) 67.1 (6.8) 64.9 (7.0) 0.06*
Mean PSA (SD) 8.85 (4.1) 7.7 (5.5) 0.21*
% of positive cores at initial biopsy (%) 15.1 (10.1) 14.3 (10.9) 0.64*
% of positive cores at confirmatory biopsy (%) 21.6 (15.6) 7.1 (9.4) <0.01*
Ethnicity
White 38 (67.8%) 77 (70%) 0.37**
Black 10 (17.8%) 24 (21.8%)
Asian 2 (3.5%) 2 (1.81%)
Mixed 0 3 (2.71%)
Other/missing 5 (8.9%) 4 (3.63%)
Gleason score
3+3 0 (0%) 73 (66.3%) <0.01**
3+4 42 (75.0%) 0 (0%)
4+3 11 (19.6%) 0 (0%)
4+5 3 (5.4%) 0 (0%)
2+3 0 (0%) 1 (0.9%)
Benign 0 (0%) 23 (20%)
HGPIN 0 (0%) 13 (11.8%)
*

T-test.

**

Chi-Square Test.