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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: BJU Int. 2017 Aug 16;121(1):77–83. doi: 10.1111/bju.13972

Table 2. Patient characteristics (n=629).

Median Range
Age (years) 64.0 30–87
Pre-biopsy PSA (ng/ml) 6.97 0.2–61.6
Estimated prostate volume (ml) 52.2 14.5–247.6
Number of lesions on MRI / patient 2.0 1–5

n %

Race
 Caucasian 502 79.8%
 African-American 106 16.9%
 Asian 10 1.6%
 Others or unknown 11 1.7%

Reason for biopsy
 Rising PSA - previous negative biopsy 274 43.6%
 Active surveillance - prostate cancer 177 28.1%
 Elevated PSA - biopsy naïve 83 13.2%
 Atypia on previous biopsy 85 13.5%
 Others 10 1.6%