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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2020 Apr 8;142:166–173. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2020.01.052

Table 2.

Distribution of Biopsy and Radical Prostatectomy Gleason Grade by Race.

African American men
Radical Prostatectomy Gleason Grade
3+3 3+4 4+3 4+4 Total Gleason
Upgrade %
Biopsy Gleason Grade 3+3 22 12 4 1 39 (40.6%) 43.6%
3+4 2 31 5 2 40 (41.7%) 17.5%
4+3 - 6 9 2 17 (17.7%) 11.8%
European American men
Radical Prostatectomy Gleason Grade
3+3 3+4 4+3 4+4 Total Gleason
Upgrade %
Biopsy Gleason Grade 3+3 35 4 5 2 46 (60.5%) 23.9%
3+4 5 15 9 1 30 (39.5%) 33.3%
4+3 - - - - - -