Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2022 Apr 11;17:71. doi: 10.1186/s13014-022-02046-x

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2022

Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 5 — To eliminate the effects of surgical artifacts on clinical outcomes, 63 patients with positive surgical margins for RP and their 63 matched pairs for SEED-BT were excluded from the analyses. Kaplan–Meier estimates of the biochemical recurrence-free rate were calculated using the Phoenix definition (PSA nadir plus 2 ng/mL) for SEED-BT and the surgical definition (PSA cut-off value of 0.2 ng/mL) for RP (A). Kaplan–Meier estimates of the biochemical recurrence-free rate using the surgical definition (PSA cut-off value of 0.2 ng/mL) for both SEED-BT and RP (B). Salvage hormonal therapy-free survival rate (C) and metastasis-free survival rate (D) for SEED-BT and RP. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; RP, radical prostatectomy; SEED-BT, seed brachytherapy