Research Article
Differences in Upgrading of Prostate Cancer in Prostatectomies between Community and Academic Practices
Table 1
Distribution of clinical and biopsy characteristics between community and academic urologists.
| | | Academic
(%) | Community
(%) | P value* |
| | Site of biopsy | 502 (100) | 846 (100) | | | Age at biopsy | | | <0.01 | | <60 | 198 (39) | 422 (49) | | | 60–69 | 220 (44) | 350 (41) | | | ≥70 | 83 (17) | 74 (9) | | | PSA | | | <0.01 | | <40 | 92 (18) | 182 (21) | | | 4–9.9 | 290 (58) | 537 (63) | | | ≥10.0 | 112 (22) | 95 (11) | | | Prostate size (cc) | | | <0.01 | | <35 | 98 (20) | 215 (25) | | | 35–44 | 121 (24) | 235 (28) | | | 44–56 | 116 (23) | 209 (25) | | | >56 | 139 (28) | 179 (21) | | | Number of cores obtained | | | <0.01 | | ≤6 | 252 (50) | 276 (32) | | | 6–9 | 49 (10) | 99 (12) | | | 10+ | 201 (40) | 471 (56) | | | Number of positive cores | | | <0.01 | | One | 157 (31) | 158 (19) | | | Two | 119 (24) | 140 (17) | | | Three | 89 (18) | 116 (14) | | | Four or more | 107 (12) | 219 (26) | | | Biopsy Gleason sum | | | <0.01 | | 356 (71) | 549 (65) | | | 146 (29) | 297 (35) | |
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P-value from chi-square test.
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