Rates of Positive Abdominal Computed Tomography and Bone Scan Findings Among Men with Cambridge Prognostic Group 4 or 5 prostate cancer: A Nationwide Registry Study

Autor: Caroline Stenman, Emelie Abrahamsson, Mikael Redsäter, Vincent J. Gnanapragasam, Ola Bratt
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: European Urology Open Science, Vol 41, Iss , Pp 123-125 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-1683
DOI: 10.1016/j.euros.2022.05.007
Popis: European and American guidelines recommend abdominal computed tomography (CT) and bone scans for staging of high-risk prostate cancer (PC). To improve clinical risk stratification of nonmetastatic PC a new, five-tier risk classification system has been developed, the Cambridge Prognostic Groups (CPG), in which “high-risk” PC is divided into favourable CPG 4 and unfavourable CPG 5. We used the National Prostate Cancer Register of Sweden (NPCR) to define the rates of positive CT and bone scan findings among men with CPG 4 or 5 cancer. Among men with CPG 4 and prostate-specific antigen (PSA)
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