Clinical Study
Younger Age Is an Independent Predictor for Poor Survival in Patients with Signet Ring Prostate Carcinoma
Table 2
Characteristics of 93 Patients with Signet Ring Prostate Carcinoma (Diagnosed Between January 1980 and December 2004).
| | Characteristics | Total patients (%) |
| | Age groups, (%) | | | 40–50 yrs | 5 (5.4) | | 51–60 yrs | 13 (14.0) | | 61–70 yrs | 30 (32.2) | | 70 yrs | 45 (48.4) | | Race | | | Black | 14 (15.1) | | White | 68 (73.1) | | Others | 11 (11.8) | | Married | | | Yes | 64 (68.8) | | No | 18 (19.4) | | Unknown | 11 (11.8) | | Grade | | | Moderately-differentiated | 9 (9.7) | | Poorly-differentiated | 74 (79.6) | | Undifferentiated | 3 (3.2) | | Unknown | 7 (7.5) | | PSA | | | Above normal | 29 (31.2) | | Normal | 6 (6.5) | | Unknown | 58 (62.4) | | Stage | | | Local/regional | 72 (77.9) | | Distant | 13 (13.9) | | Unknown | 8 (8.6) | | Year of diagnosis | | | 1980–1994 | 22 (23.7) | | 1995–2004 | 71 (76.3) | | Prostatectomy | | | Yes | 25 (26.9) | | No | 68 (73.1) | | Radiation | | | Yes | 25 (26.9) | | No | 66 (71.0) | | Unknown | 2 (2.1) |
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PSA: prostate specific antigen.
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