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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: JCO Precis Oncol. 2024 Apr;8:e2300567. doi: 10.1200/PO.23.00567

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Single test n = 1398 (%) Serial tests n = 144 (%) p-value
Race n (%) Caucasian 993 (71.0%) 104 (72.2%) 0.93
Black 276 (19.7%) 28 (19.4%)
Other 129 (9.2%) 12 (8.3%)
Median age at diagnosis (interquartile range) 63 (57–69) 61 (54–67) 0.03
Gleason at diagnosis n (%) 6–7 359 (25.7%) 39 (27.1%) 0.90
8–10 763 (54.6%) 79 (54.9%)
Missing 276 (19.7%) 26 (18.1%)
Median PSA at diagnosis (interquartile range) 18.25 (7.18–94.75) 25.8 (8.7–146.95) 0.09
Histology n (%) Adeno 1241 (88.8%) 129 (89.6%) 0.26
Neuro 10 (0.72%) 2 (1.4%)
Mixed 2 (0.14%) 1 (0.69%)
Missing 145 (10.4%) 12 (8.3%)
T stage at diagnosis n (%) T1–T2 484 (34.6%) 32 (22.2%) <0.0001
T3–T4 322 (23.0%) 28 (19.4%)
Tx 428 (30.6%) 73 (50.7%)
Missing 164 (11.7%) 11 (7.6%)
N stage at diagnosis n (%) N0 445 (31.8%) 40 (27.8%) 0.28
N1 348 (24.9%) 45 (31.3%)
Nx 440 (31.5%) 47 (32.6%)
Missing 165 (11.8%) 12 (8.3%)
M stage at diagnosis n (%) M0 469 (33.6%) 62 (43.1%) 0.10
M1 429 (30.7%) 43 (29.9%)
Mx 336 (24.0%) 27 (18.8%)
Missing 164 (11.7%) 12 (8.3%)
De novo metastatic n (%) Yes 588 (42.1%) 59 (41.0%) 0.59
No 681 (48.7%) 76 (52.8%)
Missing 129 (9.2%) 9 (6.3%)
Sites of first metastases n (%) Pelvic LN 553 (39.6%) 66 (45.8%) 0.15
Distant LN 431 (30.8%) 43 (29.9%) 0.85
Bone 934 (66.8%) 94 (65.3%) 0.71
Liver 78 (5.6%) 6 (4.2%) 0.57
Lung 104 (7.4%) 8 (5.6%) 0.50
Bladder 52 (3.7%) 3 (2.1%) 0.48
CNS 6 (0.43%) 0 (0%)
Other 60 (4.3%) 6 (4.2%) 1.00
Primary definitive therapy n (%) Radical Prostatectomy 543 (38.8%) 56 (38.9%) 0.93
Definitive Radiation 609 (43.6%) 73 (50.7%) 0.11
Brachytherapy 57 (4.1%) 7 (4.9%) 0.66
Cryotherapy 27 (1.9%) 0 (0%)
None 162 (11.6%) 8 (5.6%)
Mean # of systemic treatments after the first NGS test result per patient 1.40 1.65 0.012
Systemic treatments after the first NGS test result Total 677 178
PARP inhibitor 70 14 0.40
Immunotherapy 64 13 0.46
Taxane 479 116 <0.0001
Platinum 64 35 0.0003