Pathological outcome for Chinese patients with low-risk prostate cancer eligible for active surveillance and undergoing radical prostatectomy: comparison of six different active surveillance protocols.

CONCLUSIONS: Active surveillance protocols based on prostate-specific antigen and Gleason score alone or including Gleason score of 3+4 may miss high-risk disease and should be used cautiously. The John Hopkins and PRIAS protocols are highly specific in identifying localised disease and low-risk histology.
PMID: 29026057 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Hong Kong Med J - October 13, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tsang CF, Tsu JH, Lai TC, Wong KW, Ho BS, Ng AT, Ma WK, Yiu MK Tags: Hong Kong Med J Source Type: research