Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of patients from the IRCCS OSR institutional biobank.
| Age at surgery years (median + ES) |
n. specimens/patients | Preop. cPSA levels ng/ml (mean + ES) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| PCa patients | 62 ± 1.42 | 25 | 12.83 ± 3.05 |
| Pathological features | n. specimens/patients | Preop. cPSA levels ng/ml (mean + ES) |
Statistical Significance of preop. cPSA levels |
|---|---|---|---|
| GS < 4+3 | 5 | 7.39 ± 1.60 | |
| GS 4+3 | 9 | 12.67 ± 3.60 | |
| GS 8 | 1 | 2 | |
| GS 9 | 11 | 16.41 ± 6.51 | |
| < pT3a | 6 | 4.39 ± 0.97 | |
| pT3a | 7 | 11.66 ± 4.11 | |
| > pT3a | 13 | 17.36 ± 5.44 | ** vs <pT3a; * vs ≤ pT3a |
| pN0 | 18 | 8.16 ± 1.79 | |
| pN1 | 8 | 23.33 ± 8.24 | * vs N0 |
Abbreviations: cPSA: circulating serum PSA; pN0: without lymph node invasion; pN1; with Lymph node invasion