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. 2020 Jul 3;20:148. doi: 10.1186/s12911-020-01174-2

Table 2.

Clinical Characteristics of patients whom their prostate volume is recorded

All patients with prostate volume (n = 2970) PCa patients with prostate volume (n = 1689)
PCa No PCa P-value High grade PCa Low grade PCa P-value
Patients 1689 (57%) 1281 (43%) 1022 (61%) 667 (39%)
Median Age (mean) 64.89 (64.05) 63.00 (62.00) < 0.001 (< 0.001) 65.00 (64.68) 64.00 (63.09) < 0.001 (< 0.001)
Family history of PCa
 Yes 129 (8%) 91 (7%) 0.741 83 (8%) 46 (7%) 0.192
 Not recorded 1186 (70%) 894 (70%) 701 (69%) 485 (73%)
 No 374 (22%) 296 (23%) 238 (23%) 136 (20%)
Median PSA (mean) 7.19 (19.45) 6.42 (7.45) < 0.001 (< 0.001) 7.82 (27.43) 6.30 (7.23) < 0.001 (< 0.001)
DRE
 Normal 735 (44%) 706 (55%) < 0.001 361 (35%) 374 (56%) < 0.001
 Not recorded 241 (14%) 286 (22%) 143 (14%) 98 (15%)
 Abnormal 713 (42%) 289 (23%) 195 (51%) 195 (29%)
Previous negative biopsy
 Yes 277 (16%) 303 (24%) < 0.001 113 (11%) 164 (25%) < 0.001
 No 1412 (84%) 978 (76%) 909 (89%) 503 (75%)
Median Prostate volume (mean) 35 (39.9) 45 (51.9) < 0.001 (< 0.001) 34.1 (38.5) 37.3 (42.0) < 0.001 (0.001)
Biopsy Gleason Score
 Gleason 6 667 (40%) 667 (100%)
 Gleason 7 659 (39%) 659 (64%)
 Gleason 8 222 (13%) 222 (22%)
 Gleason 9 124 (7%) 124 (12%)
 Gleason 10 17 (1%) 17 (2%)