Research Article
Are the Pathological Characteristics of Prostate Cancer More Aggressive or More Indolent Depending upon the Patient Age?
Table 4
The percentages of Gleason grade groups (GGG) in the three age groups.
| | | Group 1 (≤55 years) | Group 2 (56–75 years) | Group 3 (>75 years) |
| | GGG 1 | 21 (15.8%) | 305 (15.0%) | 95 (12.5%) | | GGG 2 | 23 (17.3%) | 499 (24.5%) | 162 (21.4%) | | GGG 3 | 16 (12.0%) | 308 (15.2%) | 104 (13.6%) | | GGG 4 | 19 (14.3%) | 320 (15.7%) | 145 (18.9%) | | GGG 5 | 54 (40.6%) | 601 (29.6%) | 257 (33.7%) |
| | GGG 1-2 | 44 (33.1%) | 804 (39.5%) | 257 (33.6%) | | GGG 3–5 | 89 (66.9%) | 1229 (60.5%) | 506 (66.3%) |
| | SUM | 133 (100%) | 2033 (100%) | 763 (100%) |
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