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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2015 Oct 22;87:146–152. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2015.08.029

Table 1.

Patient, tumor, and treatment characteristics

Patient characteristics at time of RT
Age (years) 68 (42–93)
Smoking history
 0–20 pack-years 1194 (54.0%)
 >20 pack-years 469 (21.2%)
 Unknown 548 (24.8%)
Hypertension
 Yes 959 (43.4%)
 No 1252 (56.6%)
Hyperlipidemia
 Yes 612 (27.7%)
 No 1599 (82.3%)
Diabetes mellitus
 Yes 203 (9.2%)
 No 2008 (90.8%)
Prior cardiovascular event
 Yes 345 (15.6%)
 No 1866 (84.4%)
Tumor characteristics
AJCC T stage
 T1 1049 (47.4%)
 T2 937 (42.4%)
 T3 225 (10.2%)
Gleason score
 ≤ 6 1705 (77.1%)
 7 369 (16.7%)
 8–10 137 (6.2%)
PSA
 ≤4 289 (13.1%)
 >4–10 1175 (53.1%)
 >10–20 468 (21.2%)
 >20 279 (12.6%)
NCCN risk group
 Low 711 (32.2%)
 Intermediate 922 (41.7%)
 High 578 (26.1%)
Treatment characteristics
RT modality
 EBRT alone 1705 (77.1%)
 Brachytherapy alone 369 (16.7%)
 EBRT + brachytherapy 137 (6.2%)
ADT at the time of RT
 Yes 991 (44.8%)
 No 1220 (55.2%)
Salvage ADT prior to CE
 Yes 365 (16.5%)
 No 1846 (83.5%)
Time to salvage ADT (years) 5.5 (0.6 – 18.4)

ADT, androgen-deprivation therapy; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; EBRT, external beam radiotherapy; NCCN, National Comprehensive Cancer Network; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; RT, radiotherapy.