TABLE 2.

Pathological characteristics of 1877 patients treated with radical prostatectomy between 1988 and 2006

	Low		Intermediate		High		Overall
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
Stage
pT2a	102	65.0	44	28.0	11	7.0	157
pT2b	54	54.5	43	43.4	2	2.0	99
pT2c	537	52.1	365	35.4	129	12.5	1031
pT3	120	24.4	218	44.3	154	31.3	492
pT4	5	16.7	14	46.7	11	36.7	30
Gleason score
2–6	502	71.8	151	21.6	46	6.6	699
7	295	33.0	471	52.7	127	14.2	893
8–10	19	8.8	64	29.6	133	61.6	216
Surgical margins
Negative	670	49.1	493	36.1	201	14.7	1364
Positive	148	33.3	191	43.0	105	23.6	444
Extracapsular extension
Absent	476	58.5	257	31.6	80	9.8	813
Into, not through	224	46.0	198	40.7	65	13.3	487
Present	119	24.5	209	43.1	157	32.4	485