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. 2021 Jan 11;13(2):244. doi: 10.3390/cancers13020244

Table 2.

Urinary function outcomes after various salvage interventions presented as mild versus severe urinary incontinence.

Author and Year of Publication Functional Outcomes Sample Incontinence Rate (General) Mild UI ¥ Severe UI £
Surgery
Mohler 2019 [26] 40 (6 months)
34 (12 months)
32 (24 months)
24 (36 months)
- - 88%
85%
63%
42%
Devos 2019 (a) 25 56% 28% 28%
Seabra 2009 [27] 42 72% - 72%
Ward 2005 [40] 130 48% At least 20% ** Less than 28% **
HIFU
Hostiou 2019 [35] 50 - 14% 42%
Devos 2019 (b) 27 22% 11% 11%
Crouzet 2017 [45] 388 49% 33% 16%
Jones 2018 [31] 100 47% 18% 29%
Kanthabalan 2017 [57] 48 22% * - -
Shah 2016 [32] 26 31% * - -
Siddiqui 2015 (a) [56] 65 7.50% 3% 4.5%
Baco 2014 [33] 48 25.30% 17% 8.3%
Crouzet 2012 [34] 290 46% 37% 16.8%
Berge 2011 [46] 61 - 44% 16%
Ahmed 2012 [44] 84 38% N/A § N/A
Berge 2010 [36] 35 60.7% 43.4% 17.3%
Murat 2009 [42] 167 49.50% 40% 9.5%
Cryotherapy
Bomers 2020 [58] 44 3.2% - 3.2%
Tan 2020 (a) [59] 72 9.30% N/A N/A
Tan 2020 (b) [59] 313 15.10% N/A N/A
Safavy 2019 [60] 75 25.30% * - -
Siddiqui 2016 [49] 157 48% 44% 4%
Li 2015 [48] 740 No pre-SC ADT: 33.3% *
With pre-SC ADT: 23.3% *
- -
Siddiqui 2015 (b) [56] 65 52% 49% 3%
Siddiqui 2015 (c) [56] 65 37.50% 31% 6.5%
Li 2014 [50] 91 5.50% * - -
Ahmad 2013 [47] 283 12% * - -
De Castro Abreu 2013 (a) [51] 25 0% * - -
De Castro Abreu 2013 (b) [51] 25 13% * - -
Pisters 2008 [52] 137 10.20% * - -
Ismail 2007 [37] 100 13% Less than 7% ** At least 6% **
Ng 2007 [53] 187 40% + 37% 3%
Clarke 2007 [38] 47 0% 0% 0%
Donnelly 2005 [28] 46 6.50% N/A N/A
Brachytherapy
Van Son 2020 [29] 50 8% - 8%
Crook 2019 [43] 87 4.6% - 4.6%
Henríquez López 2019 (a) [54] 73 26.70% * - -
Henríquez López 2019 (b) [54] 44 4.50% * - -
Kollmeier 2017 [55] 98 11% * - -
Yamada 2014 [30] 42 2.40% - 2.4%

¥: mild UI was defined as any UI up to but not exceeding two pads per day, grade 1 (UI with coughing or sneezing) and 2 (UI with running or picking an object from the floor) Ingleman-Sundberg UI, grade 1 (occasional UI, no pads needed) CTCAE v4.0/v4.3, and grade 1 (occasional, no pads needed) and 2 (pads needed, not interfering with ADL) CTCAE v3.0. £: severe UI was defined as any UI exceeding two pads per day, UI requiring instrumentation or surgery, grade 3 (UI with walking) Ingleman-Sundberg UI, grade 2 (spontaneous UI, no intervention needed) and 3 (spontaneous, intervention needed) CTCAE v4.0/v4.3, and grade 3 (UI interfering with ADL) and 4 (surgery is needed) CTCAE v3.0 §: no further details on pads or grades provided. : Tan (a) used focal CT, while Tan (b) used total CT *: ≥1 pad with no other specifications **: the numbers reported do not match those of our table (e.g., <3 pads and ≥3 pads); the lower limit underestimates UI and the upper limit overestimates UI, so “less than” and “at least” were added accordingly. +: “Mild to moderate” was put as (mild UI), “severe” was put as (severe UI), [n] = number of patients assessed for given outcome, UCLA-PCI = University of California, Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index.