Table 3.

Kaplan Meier overall survival (OS) analysis of 20 PCa cases after kidney transplantation: patients at start, events (deaths), p-value from log rank test, hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals from cox regression analysis.

	Overall survival			Cox regression
Characteristic	N ◦ at start	N ◦ deaths	P-value *	HR (95%CI)	P ◦
Age at transplantion (ys)
≤ 55	10	4	0.27
> 55	10	7
Age at cancer diagnosis (ys)
≤ 64	10	3	0.09
> 64	10	8
Transplant-cancer interval (ys)
≤ 8.6	10	6	0.47
> 8.6	10	5
PSA at diagnosis (ng/ml)
<10	17	8		1
>10	3	3	0.029	4.25 (1.04–17.4)	0.044
Bioptic gleason score
≤7	15	7	0.43
>7	5	4
Pathologic gleason score
≤7	7	2	0.35
>7	3	1
cT stage
2	12	6	0.82
3	8	5
Primary therapy
Surgery	10	3	0.061
RT	10	8
Hormonotherapy
No	18	9	0.41
Yes	2	2
Post-surgery RT
No	17	8	0.59
Yes	3	3
Other cancers
No	9	4	0.71
Yes	11	7
Biochemical recurrence
No	17	9	0.79
Yes	3	2
Immunosuppresive therapy
Other	17	9
Cyclosporine+steroid+azathioprine	3	2	0.24
Gleason Score group at transrectal ultrasound biopsy
GS 6 (3 + 3)	8	6
GS 7 (3 + 4)	4	0	0.49
GS 7 (4 + 3)	3	1
GS 8 (4 + 4)	3	3
GS 9 (4 + 5)	2	1
Gleason Score group after open radical prostatectomy
GS 6 (3 + 3)	5	1
GS 7 (3 + 4)	2	1	0.34
GS 8 (4 + 4)	1	0
GS 9 (4 + 5)	2	1
Total	20	11

Ys, years; RT, radiotherapy; GS, Gleason score.

^*P-value from log rank test;

^◦p-value from Cox regression analysis.

They represent the Hazard Ratio (HR), the 95% Confidence Interval (CI) and the p value from Cox regression analysis.