Is the biopsy Gleason score important in predicting outcomes for patients after radical prostatectomy once the pathological Gleason score is known?

BJU International

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1232-1236

  Vira, Manish A ^a   Guzzo, Thomas ^b   Heitjan, Daniel F ^d   Tomaszewski, John E ^c   D'Amico, Anthony ^e   Wein, Alan J ^b   Malkowicz, S Bruce ^b  

^a The Arthur Smith Institute for Urology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gleason score; Prognosis; Prostate biopsy; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 42249094167     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07508.x     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Gleason DF, Mellinger GT. Prediction of prognosis for prostatic adenocarcinoma by combined histological grading and clinical staging. J Urol 1974 111 : 58 64
2. Steinberg DM, Sauvageot J, Piantadosi S, Epstein JI. Correlation of prostate needle biopsy and radical prostatectomy Gleason grade in academic and community settings. Am J Surg Pathol 1997 21 : 566 76
3. Soloway M, Roach M. Prostate cancer progression after therapy of primary curative intent: a review of data from prostate-specific antigen era. Cancer 2005 104 : 2310 22
4. Fleiss JL. Statistical Method for Rates and Proportions, 2nd edn. New York : John Wiley-Interscience, 1981
5. Cox DR, Oakes D. Analysis of Survival Data. London : Chapman and Hill, 1984
6. Bostwick DG. Gleason grading of prostatic needle biopsies. Correlation with grade in 316 matched prostatectomies. Am J Surg Pathol 1994 18 : 796 803
7. Cookson MS, Fleshner NE, Soloway SM, Fair WR. Correlation between Gleason score of needle biopsy and radical prostatectomy specimen: accuracy and clinical implications. J Urol 1997 157 : 559 62
8. San Francisco IF, DeWolf WC, Rosen S, Upton M, Olumi AF. Extended prostate needle biopsy improves concordance of Gleason grading between prostate needle biopsy and radical prostatectomy. J Urol 2003 169 : 136 40
9. King CR, Patel DA, Terris MK. Prostate biopsy volume indices do not predict for significant Gleason upgrading. Am J Clin Oncol 2005 28 : 125 9
10. King CR. Patterns of prostate cancer biopsy grading: trends and clinical implications. Int J Cancer 2000 90 : 305 11
11. Fitzsimons NJ, Presti JC Jr, Kane CJ et al. Is biopsy Gleason score independently associated with biochemical progression following radical prostatectomy after adjusting for pathological Gleason score? J Urol 2006 176 : 2453 8
12. Stamey TA, McNeal JE, Yemoto CM, Sigal BM, Johnstone IM. Biological determinants of cancer progression in men with prostate cancer. JAMA 1999 281 : 1395 400
13. Egevad L, Allsbrook WC Jr, Epstein JI. Current practice of Gleason grading among genitourinary pathologists. Hum Pathol 2005 36 : 5 9
14. Mosse CA, Magi-Galluzzi C, Tsuzuki T, Epstein JI. The prognostic significance of tertiary Gleason pattern 5 in radical prostatectomy specimens. Am J Surg Pathol 2004 28 : 394 8
15. Hattab EM, Koch MO, Eble JN, Lin H, Cheng L. Tertiary Gleason pattern 5 is a powerful predictor of biochemical relapse in patients with Gleason score 7 prostatic adenocarcinoma. J Urol 2006 175 : 1695 9
16. Gleason DF. Histologic grading of prostate cancer: a perspective. Hum Pathol 1992 23 : 273 9
17. Lattouf JB, Saad F. Gleason score on biopsy: is it reliable for predicting the final grade on pathology? BJU Int 2002 90 : 694 8