Clinical usefulness of prostate and tumor volume related parameters following radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer Journal Article


Authors: Ito, Y.; Udo, K.; Vertosick, E. A.; Sjoberg, D. D.; Vickers, A. J.; Al-Ahmadie, H. A.; Chen, Y. B.; Gopalan, A.; Sirintrapun, S. J.; Tickoo, S. K.; Scardino, P. T.; Eastham, J. A.; Reuter, V. E.; Fine, S. W.
Article Title: Clinical usefulness of prostate and tumor volume related parameters following radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer
Abstract: PURPOSE: We evaluated whether the prediction of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy is enhanced by any of 6 parameters, including prostate volume, total tumor volume, high grade total tumor volume, the ratio of high grade total tumor volume to total tumor volume, the ratio of total tumor volume to prostate volume and/or the ratio of high grade total tumor volume to prostate volume. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 1,261 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy during a 3-year period had tumor maps constructed with the Gleason pattern denoted as low-3 or high-4 or 5 and volumetric data generated using commercially available software. Univariate Cox regression models were used to assess whether each volume related parameter was associated with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy. A multivariable Cox regression base model (age, prostate specific antigen, Gleason score/grade group, pathological stage and margin status) was compared with 6 additional models (base model plus each volume related parameter) to evaluate enhancement in predictive accuracy. Decision curve analysis was performed to determine the clinical utility of parameters that enhanced predictive accuracy. RESULTS: On univariate analysis each parameter was significantly associated with biochemical recurrence except prostate volume. Predictive accuracy of the multivariable base model was high (c-index = 0.861). Adding volume related parameters marginally enhanced discrimination. Decision curve analysis failed to show added benefit even for high grade total tumor volume/total tumor volume, which was the parameter with the highest discriminative improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Tumor volume related parameters are significantly associated with radical prostatectomy but do not add important discrimination to standard clinicopathological variables for radical prostatectomy prediction or provide benefit across a range of clinically relevant decision thresholds. Volume related measurement is not warranted in routine pathological evaluation and reporting.
Journal Title: Journal of Urology
Volume: 201
Issue: 3
ISSN: 0022-5347
Publisher: Elsevier Science, Inc.  
Date Published: 2019-03-01
Start Page: 535
End Page: 540
Language: English
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2018.09.060
PUBMED: 30300632
PROVIDER: scopus
PMCID: PMC6686678
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  1. Peter T Scardino
    671 Scardino
  2. Satish K Tickoo
    483 Tickoo
  3. Anuradha Gopalan
    417 Gopalan
  4. Yingbei Chen
    398 Chen
  5. Andrew J Vickers
    882 Vickers
  6. Daniel D. Sjoberg
    234 Sjoberg
  7. James Eastham
    538 Eastham
  8. Samson W Fine
    462 Fine
  9. Victor Reuter
    1228 Reuter
  10. Emily Vertosick
    135 Vertosick
  11. Yujiro Ito
    5 Ito