Clinical Study
A Retrospective Study on Pathologic Features and Racial Disparities in Prostate Cancer
Table 3
Differences in clinical and pathological features at prostatectomy between African Americans and Caucasians.
| | Features | African American (n) | Caucasian (n) | P value |
| | Total radical prostatectomy (%) | 18.7 (236) | 21.2 (216) | >0.05 | | Cystoprostatectomy (%) | 9.8 (23) | 26.9 (58) | <0.0001a | | Incidental prostate cancer (%) | 39.1 (9) | 34.5 (20) | >0.05 | | Prostate cancer in prostatectomy (%) | 78.4 (185) | 70.4 (152) | >0.05 | | Age (year, mean ± SD) | (185) | (152) | 0.0005 | | Gleason score (mean ± SD) | (184) | (149) | >0.05 | | Positive surgical margin (%) | 33.5 (62) | 19.7 (30) | 0.0005b | | Extracapsular extension (%) | 18.9 (35) | 17.8 (27) | >0.05 | | Seminal vesicle invasion (%) | 9.7 (18) | 8.6 (13) | >0.05 | | Lymph node invasion (%) | 3.2 (6) | 1.3 (2) | >0.05 | | Weight of prostate (grams, median) | 46 (127) | 45 (97) | >0.05 | | % of prostate gland (median) | 15 (114) | 6.6 (94) | 0.00506 | | Volume (cm3, median) | 7.4 (114) | 3 (93) | 0.00185 |
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a: OR= 0.31, 95% CI: 0.18–0.52; b: OR = 2.05, 95% CI: 1.243–3.38.
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