First Danish Single-Institution Experience with Radical Prostatectomy: Biochemical Outcome in 1200 Consecutive Patients. (25th November 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Røder, M. Andreas; Berg, Kasper D.; Gruschy, Lisa; Brasso, Klaus; Iversen, Peter
• Other Names: Wirth Manfred P. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Prostate cancer. Volume 2011(2011)
• Publication Date: 2010-11-25
• Subjects: Prostate -- Cancer -- Periodicals; Prostate -- Cancer -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 616.99463
• DOI: 10.1155/2011/236357
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2090-3111

Abstract

Abstract : Radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) as intended curative therapy for patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PC) was initiated in 1995 in Denmark. This paper reports single-institution results from the first 1200 consecutive patients operated during a 15-year period. Median age at surgery was 63 years. Median PSA was 9 ng/mL. Palpable tumors (≤cT2) were present in 48% of patients. Gleason score at biopsy was ≤7 for 85% of patients. In sixty-five percent of patients, histopathology revealed localized PCa after RRP. Positive surgical margins were found in 39.2% of the cases. Biochemical recurrence (BR) occurred for 214 (18%) of patients. The estimated biochemical recurrence free survival (BRFS) was 71.7% and 63.2% after 5 and 10 years, respectively. When patients were stratified according to the D'Amico criteria, BRFS after 10 years was 75.3%, 59.7%, and 39.3% for low-, medium- and high-risk patients, respectively. In univariate analysis, clinical stage, PSA at diagnosis and type of surgery were significant predictors of BR. In multivariate analysis, Gleason score > 7, PSA > 10, and higher clinical stage were significant predictors of BR. Early Danish results in a population not subjected to screening demonstrate BRFS rates comparable with earlier reports from the prescreening era.