Anterior prostate cancer: is it more difficult to diagnose?
| Autor: | M.P.A. Young, M.J. Kellett, Simon Bott, M.C. Parkinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | BJU International. 89:886-889 |
| ISSN: | 1464-410X 1464-4096 |
| Popis: | Objective To determine whether anterior prostatic tumours are adequately sampled using the Stamey sextant protocol, as a fifth of prostate cancers are anterior in distribution at radical prostatectomy. Materials and methods All tumours (62) with an anterior distribution (75% of the tumour anterior to the urethra) on radical prostatectomy whole-mounts, and in which the number and results of the sextant biopsies were available, were extracted from a prostate cancer database. Sixty-one posterior tumours (75% of the malignant tissue posterior to the urethra) and their corresponding sextant biopsies were also retrieved for comparison. The number of biopsy sessions, the number of cores involved and the summated tumour length were recorded, together with the prostate gland weight, the tumour volume and the site of 75% of tumour in the superior-inferior axis. Results Anterior tumours required significantly more biopsy sessions to diagnose prostate cancer than posterior neoplasms (anterior, one set 47; > one set 15; posterior, one set 57; > one set, four, P=0.007). Anterior tumours had fewer cores with tumour involvement and less summated tumour length than had posterior cancers. The mean (sd) number of positive cores was; anterior 1.8 (1.01), posterior 2.50 (1.30) (P=0.001); the summated tumour length was; anterior 5.05 (4.10) mm, posterior 9.25 (7.80) mm (P |
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