PREDICTING RISK OF PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN RECURRENCE AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY WITH THE CENTER FOR PROSTATE DISEASE RESEARCH AND CANCER OF THE PROSTATE STRATEGIC UROLOGIC RESEARCH ENDEAVOR DATABASES

Abstract

With a broad cohort of community based, academic and military cases, we developed an equation that stratifies men into 4 discrete risk groups of recurrence after radical prostatectomy and confirmed use of a prior 3 risk group model. Although the variables of ethnicity, pretreatment PSA, highest Gleason sum on prostatectomy specimen and organ confinement status on surgical pathology upon which the model is based are easily obtained, more refined modeling with additional variables are needed to improve prediction of intermediate risk in individuals.