Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

Parameter	Value ± standard deviance [min–max]
Number of patients	333
Age (years)	66.8 ± 7.4 [47–85]
PSA (ng/ml)	12.8 ± 11.7 [1.47–112]
Prostate volume (ml)	62.8 ± 32.1 [6.10–203.66]
Biopsy result (highest grade)
No cancer nor inflammation	56 (16.8%)
Inflammation (chronic or acute)	51 (15.3%)
PIN	10 (3.0%)
3 + 3	64 (19.2%)
3 + 4	44 (13.2%)
4 + 3	31 (9.3%)
4 + 4	57 (17.1%)
4 + 5	13 (3.9%)
5 + 4	4 (1.2%)
5 + 5	3 (0.9%)

Values are given as mean ± standard deviation [range] for continuous variables and absolute frequency (relative frequency) for biopsy results.

PSA prostate-specific antigen, PIN prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia.