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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2016 Feb 13;196(1):62–67. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.02.066

Table 1.

Patient, imaging and biopsy characteristics by PCa diagnosis at repeat FB

PCa on Rebiopsy
No Yes p Value

No. lesions/total No. (%) 110/131 (84) 21/131 (16)
Median age (range) 60.0 (45.0–78.0) 62.0 (47.0–74.0) 0.451
Median ng/ml prebiopsy PSA (range) 5.12 (1.23–24.80) 4.97 (1.67–13.22) 0.205
Median cm initial lesion diameter (range) 0.80 (0.30–3.0) 0.90 (0.30–2.1) 0.232
No. max initial GS/total No. (%): 0.121
 Benign 55/110 (50) 7/21 (33.3)
 3 + 3 42/110 (38.2) 13/21 (61.9)
 3 + 4 13/110 (11.8) 1/21 (4.8)
No. anterior lesions/total No. (%) 31/131 (28.2) 4/21 (19.0) 0.282
No. initial MRI suspicion score/total No. (%): 0.821
 Low 35/110 (31.8) 7/21 (33.3)
 Moderate 73/110 (66.4) 14/21 (66.7)
 High 2/110 (1.8) 0/21 (0)
Median ng/ml repeat biopsy PSA (range) 5.31 (0.83–36.62) 4.82 (1.28–21.35) 0.422
Median days to repeat (range):
 mpMRI 497.5 (240–1,694) 475.0 (364–2,742) 0.537
 Biopsy 530.0 (108–2,581) 517.0 (364–2,418) 0.900
Median cm final lesion size (range) 0.750 (0.30–3.10) 1.10 (0.30–2.30) 0.060
Mean ± SD lesion size increase (mm) −0.316 ± 1.993 0.710 ± 2.444 0.104
Mean ± SD growth rate (mm/yr) −0.203 ± 1.082 0.143 ± 1.573 0.143
Mean ± SD PSA increase (ng/ml) 0.25 ± 3.53 0.45 ± 2.58 0.115