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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Prostate. 2022 Nov 13;83(3):277–285. doi: 10.1002/pros.24459

Table 1:

Characteristics of patients with vs. without metastases (n=251)

Variables Metastases (n=38) No Metastases (n=213) p-value

Age, median (IQR) 59 (56-63) 59 (54-65) 0.654

PSA, median (IQR) 7.0 (5.3-8.7) 5.5 (4.4-8.4) 0.035

Race, n (%)
   White 32 (16.0) 168 (84.0) 0.196
   Black 6 (18.8) 26 (81.3)
   Other 0 (0) 16 (100.0)

  Prostatectomy year, median (IQR) 2008 (2007-2009) 2009 (2008-2011) 0.006

Prostatectomy Gleason score, n (%) <0.0001
   3+4 1 ( 0.7) 135 (99.3)
   4+3 9 (16.1) 47 (83.9)
   8 6 (26.1) 17 (73.9)
   9-10 22 (66.7) 11 (33.3)

Pathology stage, n (%) <0.0001
   Organ confined 6 (4.6) 124 (95.4)
   Extraprostatic extension 10 (12.5) 70 (87.5)
   Seminal vesicle involvement 10 (43.5) 13 (56.5)
   Lymph node involvement 12 (85.7) 2 (14.3)

Surgical margins, n (%) 0.003
   Negative 23 (11.7) 174 (88.3)
   positive 14 (28.6) 35 (71.4)

NCCN Risk, n (%) 0.0002
   Intermediate 17 ( 9.1) 169 (90.0)
   High 15 (29.4) 36 (70.6)

Salvage treatment, n (%) <0.0001
   None 21 (10.9) 171 (89.1)
   ADT only 4 (66.7) 2 (33.3)
   Radiation only 8 (32.0) 17 (68.0)
   ADT+Radiation 5 (35.7) 9 (64.3)

  CAPRA-S, median (IQR) 7 (4-8) 2 (1-4) <0.0001

  Cores with PACCs, median (IQR) 1 (0-2) 0 (0-1) 0.017

Cores with PACCs, n (%)* 0.029
   0 18 (11.8) 134 (88.2)
   ≥1 20 (22.5) 69 (77.5)

Total number of PACCs, median (IQR) 1 (0-3) 0 (0-1) 0.011

  Total number of PACCs, n (%)* 0.029
   0 18 (11.8) 134 (88.2)
   ≥1 20 (22.5) 69 (77.5)

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; NCCN, National Comprehensive Cancer Network; ADT, androgen deprivation therapy; PACCs, polyaneuploid cancer cells

*

Binary classification of total PACCs and cores with PACCs gives the same distribution