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. 2022 Jan 7;12:244. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04289-2

Table 2.

EORTC QLQ-C30 characteristics of 2871 prostate cancer patients treated with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy at the Prostate Cancer Center Northwest, Gronau, Germany between 2006 and 2018 stratified according to the CAPRA-S risk group and fulfillment the pentafecta criteria.

Value All patients (n = 2871) CAPRA-S low risk group (n = 1514) CAPRA-S intermediate risk group (n = 925) CAPRA-S high risk group (n = 432) p-value Pentafecta group (n = 1469) Nonpentafecta group (n = 1402) p-value
Preoperative Global Quality of Life (QL), mean (SD) 75.4 19.2 75.7 19.4 75.1 18.9 75.2 19.4 0.7a 75.6 19.7 75.2 18.7 0.6
Preoperative EORTC QLQ-C30 Summary Score, mean (SD) 91.0 9.1 91.0 9.2 90.9 8.9 91.2 9.2 0.8a 91.3 9.0 90.7 9.3 0.08
Global Quality of Life (QL) at 24 months after surgery, mean (SD) 77.5 19.5 79.3 19.3 76.5 19.1 73.7 20.7 < 0.001a 80.8 18.3 74.1 20.2 < 0.001
EORTC QLQ-C30 Summary Score at 24 months after surgery, mean (SD) 89.3 11.9 90.2 11.5 88.8 11.6 87.6 13.4 < 0.001a 91.2 10.3 87.4 13.1 < 0.001
Global Quality of Life (QL) change at 24 months after surgery, n (%)
Major improvement 378 13% 207 14% 115 12% 56 13% < 0.001a 224 15% 154 11% < 0.001
Moderate improvement 441 15% 259 17% 130 14% 52 12% 257 17% 184 13%
Minor improvement 342 12% 199 13% 112 12% 31 7.2% 206 14% 136 10%
Stable 834 29% 451 30% 271 29% 112 26% 442 30% 392 28%
Minor deterioration 274 10% 126 8.3% 94 10% 54 13% 111 7.6% 163 12%
Moderate deterioration 327 11% 147 10% 114 12% 66 15% 140 10% 187 13%
Major deterioration 275 10% 125 8.3% 89 10% 61 14% 89 6.1% 186 13%
EORTC QLQ-C30 Summary Score change at 24 months after surgery, n (%)
Major improvement 41 1.4% 22 1.5% 10 1.1% 9 2.1% < 0.001a 25 1.7% 16 1.1% < 0.001
Moderate improvement 167 5.8% 98 6.5% 47 5.1% 22 5.1% 93 6.3% 74 5.3%
Minor improvement 307 11% 193 13% 82 8.9% 32 7.4% 181 12% 126 9.0%
Stable 1579 55% 848 56% 510 55% 221 51% 877 60% 702 50%
Minor deterioration 350 12% 163 11% 127 14% 60 14% 140 10% 210 15%
Moderate deterioration 293 10% 136 9.0% 103 11% 54 13% 112 7.6% 181 13%
Major deterioration 134 4.7% 54 3.6% 46 5.0% 34 7.9% 41 2.8% 93 6.6%

Significant values are in italics.

CAPRA-S the postsurgical Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment score, EORTC QLQ-C30 European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30, SD standard deviation, QoL quality of life.

aCAPRA-S low risk vs. CAPRA-S high risk.