Clinical Study

Radical Prostatectomy as a First-Line Treatment in Patients with Initial PSA  >20 ng/mL

Table 5

Oncological outcome at the 10th year after surgery in patients with favorable combination of prognostic variables (pT2, N0) versus patients with unfavorable prognostic variables (pT3-4 and/or N1).

Patient groupBCR-free survivalOverall survivalCancer-specific survival
% Censored casesKM estimates (10th year)% Censored casesKM estimates (10th year)% Censored casesKM estimates (10th year)

Favorable (pT2, N0)71.4%44.3%90.5%72.0%100.0%100.0%
Unfavorable (pT3-4 and/or N1)43.4%0%81.1%33.6%81.1%33.6%
value 0.0010.0970.011