Oncologic Outcomes of Asian Men with Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer after Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: A Single-Institution Experience

Table 3

Oncologic outcomes of extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (EPLRP) series.

	Rozet et al. [17]	Rassweiler et al. [18]	Paul et al. [19]	Stolzenburg et al. [20]	Tai et al. [16]
Study period	1998–2004	1999–2004	2000–2007	2001–2008	2004–2009
No. institutions	1	1	1	3	1
No. surgeons	4	—	3	9	3
No. patients	600	500	1115	2400	218
Mean age (yrs)	62 (47–73)	64.0 (43–81)	62.5 (42–81)	63.3 (41–81)	64.6 (45–82)
Median followup (months)	12	40	35.6	—	34
Mean preoperative PSA (ng/mL)	7.4	11.7 (0.08–93)	9.8 (0.8–99)	9.8 (0.08–93)	16.3 (0.7–185)
Pelvic lymph node dissection (%)	—	83.4%	41.6%	50.8%	100%
Pathological stage
pT2	72.0%	59.2%	59.5%	70.5%	62.3%
pT3a	19.2%	21.4%	22.4%	19.7%	12.4%
pT3b	8.8%	12.8%	9%	9.4%	16.5%
pT4	—	3.8%	6.9%	0.3%	4.2%
pT1-4N1	—	1.4%	2.2%	—	4.6%
Positive surgical margin (%)
Overall	17.7%	19.0%	26.0%	16.0%	27.1%
pT2	14.6%	7.4%	16.1%	8.1%	14.6%
pT3	25.6%	31.8%	34.6%	35.7%	47.9%
PSA recurrence-free survival rate
3-year	—	83.0%	84%	—	82.1%
5-year	—	73.1%	83%	—	74.5%