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. 2020 Aug 27;113(5):616–625. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaa132

Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of study participants by study (n = 5545)

Characteristic Overall Australia
Finland United States
United Kingdom Sweden
APCS MCCS PCFS ATBC CPS-II MEC PLCO ICR CAPS PROCAP STHM1 STHM2
Total No. 5545 219 413 442 916 360 203 394 1061 690 248 205 394
Aggressive, No. 2770 219 114 198 466 169 106 190 530 452 31 67 228
 Age at dx, mean (SD) 66.1 (8.8) 64.9 (5.8) 70.6 (7.4) 57.9 (8.4) 70.4 (6.1) 73.3 (6.9) 70.7 (9.0) 70.1 (6.4) 57.1 (5.2) 67.3 (7.6) 63.2 (5.2) 69.6 (7.6) 70.0 (8.7)
 Family history, No. (%)a
  Yes 331 (11.9) 0 (0) 15 (13.2) 32 (16.2) 27 (5.8) 22 (13.0) 6 (5.7) 18 (9.5) 111 (20.9) 79 (17.5) 10 (32.3) 11 (16.4) 0 (0)
  No 1776 (64.1) 2 (0.9) 67 (58.8) 137 (69.2) 380 (81.5) 147 (87.0) 90 (84.9) 168 (88.4) 351 (66.2) 373 (82.5) 6 (19.4) 55 (82.1) 0 (0)
 Death from PCa, No. (%)a
  Yes 2052 (74.1) 21 (9.6) 89 (78.1) 156 (78.8) 386 (82.8) 127 (75.1) 61 (57.5) 117 (61.6) 530 (100.0) 362 (80.1) 31 (100.0) 66 (98.5) 106 (46.5)
  No 311 (11.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 80 (17.2) 0 (0) 18 (17.0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 90 (19.9) 0 (0) 1 (1.5) 122 (53.5)
 Metastatic disease, No. (%)a
  Yes 467 (16.9) 4 (1.8) 17 (14.9) 10 (5.1) 186 (39.9) 0 (0) 29 (27.4) 47 (24.7) 174 (32.8) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
  No 663 (23.9) 3 (1.4) 0 (0) 1 (0.5) 234 (50.2) 0 (0) 74 (69.8) 131 (68.9) 220 (41.5) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Stage, No. (%)a
  1 410 (14.8) 14 (6.4) 59 (51.8) 109 (55.1) 63 (13.5) 77 (45.6) 31 (29.2) 25 (13.2) 16 (3.0) 0 (0) 4 (12.9) 12 (17.9) 0 (0)
  2 367 (13.2) 0 (0) 2 (1.8) 10 (5.1) 109 (23.4) 0 (0) 0 (0) 36 (18.9) 66 (12.5) 71 (15.7) 27 (87.1) 15 (22.4) 31 (13.6)
  3 1277 (46.1) 194 (88.6) 34 (29.8) 67 (33.8) 91 (19.5) 92 (54.4) 43 (40.6) 77 (40.5) 164 (30.9) 315 (69.7) 0 (0) 33 (49.3) 167 (73.2)
  4 654 (23.6) 11 (5.0) 19 (16.7) 12 (6.1) 203 (43.6) 0 (0) 29 (27.4) 52 (27.4) 230 (43.4) 64 (14.2) 0 (0) 4 (6.0) 30 (13.2)
 Gleason score, No (%)a
  ≤6 197 (7.1) 0 (0) 4 (3.5) 1 (0.5) 109 (23.4) 22 (13.0) 4 (3.8) 28 (14.7) 9 (1.7) 18 (4.0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (0.9)
  7 490 (17.7) 2 (0.9) 28 (24.6) 80 (40.4) 88 (18.9) 36 (21.3) 27 (25.5) 38 (20.0) 16 (3.0) 133 (29.4) 9 (29.0) 0 (0) 33 (14.5)
  8-10 1862 (67.2) 217 (99.1) 70 (61.4) 115 (58.1) 134 (28.8) 82 (48.5) 67 (63.2) 114 (60.0) 484 (91.3) 299 (66.2) 22 (71.0) 67 (100.0) 191 (83.8)
Nonaggressive, No. 2775 0 299 244 450 191 97 204 531 238 217 138 166
 Age at dx, mean (SD) 67.5 (7.0) 71.5 (6.7) 65.0 (6.5) 71.9 (4.7) 68.3 (5.0) 67.8 (6.8) 68.4 (5.5) 62.6 (6.0) 66.9 (7.4) 63.7 (5.1) 73.4 (3.8) 67.0 (7.9)
 Family history, No. (%)a
  Yes 467 (16.8) 47 (15.7) 56 (23.0) 17 (3.8) 53 (27.7) 14 (14.4) 20 (9.8) 123 (23.2) 50 (21.0) 58 (26.7) 29 (21.0) 0 (0)
  No 1816 (65.4) 199 (66.6) 137 (56.1) 385 (85.6) 138 (72.3) 80 (82.5) 181 (88.7) 350 (65.9) 188 (79.0) 49 (22.6) 109 (79.0) 0 (0)
 Stage, No. (%)
  1 2383 (85.9) 262 (87.6) 198 (81.1) 267 (59.3) 191 (100.0) 97 (100.0) 78 (38.2) 531 (100.0) 238 (100.0) 217 (100.0) 138 (100.0) 166 (100.0)
  2 392 (14.1) 37 (12.4) 46 (18.9) 183 (40.7) 0 (0) 0 (0) 26 (61.8) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Gleason score ≤6, No. (%)a 2773 (99.9) 299 (100.0) 244 (100.0) 450 (100.0) 191 (100.0) 97 (100.0) 204 (100.0) 531 (100.0) 238 (100.0) 217 (100.0) 136 (98.6) 166 (100.0)
a

Numbers do not sum to the total sample size due to missing data. Dx = diagnosis; PCa = prostate cancer; APCS = Aggressive Prostate Cancer Case-Control Study; MCCS = Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study; PCFS = Australian Prostate Cancer Family Study; ATBC = Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Prevention Study; CPS-II = American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II; MEC = Multiethnic Cohort; PLCO = The Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial Cohort; ICR = The Institute of Cancer Research; CAPS = The Cancer of the Prostate in Sweden Study; PROCAP = Progression of Cancer in the Prostate; STHM1 = The Stockholm-1 Study; STHM2 = The Stockholm-2 Study; Em dash (—) = missing.