Treatment, of patients with prostate cancer still remains a difficult decision-making process that requires physicians to balance clinical benefits, life expectancy, comorbidities, and treatment-related side effects. Gleason score (a sum of the primary and secondary Gleason patterns) solely based ...
The scores are added together to come up with an overall score between 6 and 10. Gleason scores of 5 or lower are not used. The lowest Gleason score is 6, which is a low-grade cancer. A Gleason score of 7 is a medium-grade cancer, and a score of 8, 9, or 10is a high-grade...
Cause-specific Cox regression models (propensity score-adjusted) of the effect of external beam radiotherapy dose on time to prostate cancer-specific mortality and distant metastasis eTable 7. Cause-specific Cox regression models of time until prostate cancer-specific mortality and distant metastasis amo...
On the other hand, we think that it is crucial for each patient to obtain detailed information on his final Gleason score proved by a pathologist on radical prostatectomy specimens, as this is the main prognostic factor that has to do with his life expectancy and symptom-free interval. In ...
Gleason scoreProstate cancerProstate-specific antigenIn order to help inform the discussion about the risks versus benefits of prostate cancer screening among older men, we determined whether advanced age is associated with a higher probability of harboring high-grade or high-risk disease. The ...
For CSS multivariate analysis, the following were significant: age, race, insurance status, total Gleason Score, T-stage, and type or omission of definitive local treatments. Compared to prostatectomy alone, men not undergoing definit...