Secondary Circulating Prostate Cells Predict Biochemical Failure in Prostate Cancer Patients after Radical Prostatectomy and without Evidence of Disease

Table 2

Secondary CPC detection and association with clinical parameters.

Clinical parameter	CPC (+)	CPC (−)
Margin (+)	15	7	𝑃=0.003
Margin (−)	23	47
Capsule (+)	24	17	𝑃=0.003
Capsule (−)	14	37
Perineural (+)	27	29	𝑃=0.09
Perineural (−)	11	25
Vascular (+)	15	3	𝑃=0.00005
Vascular (−)	23	51
Lymphatic (+)	13	4	𝑃=0.001
Lymphatic (−)	25	50
Gleason 4	1	11 RR 1.00	𝑃=0.015 for trends
Gleason 5 + 6	31	23 RR 7.41
Gleason 7	8	11 RR 4.00
Gleason 8 + 9	8	1 RR 44.00