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The ProtecT trial: analysis of the patient cohort, baseline risk stratification and disease progression.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Young, Grace J 
Lane, Janet A 
Metcalfe, Chris 

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the baseline clinico-pathological features of the men with localized prostate cancer (PCa) included in the ProtecT (Prostate Testing for Cancer and Treatment) trial who progressed (n = 198) at a 10-year median follow-up were different from those of men with stable disease (n = 1409). PATIENTS AND METHODS: We stratified the study participants at baseline according to risk of progression using clinical disease stage, pathological grade and PSA level, using Cox proportional hazard models. RESULTS: The findings showed that 34% of participants (n = 505) had intermediate- or high-risk PCa, and 66% (n = 973) had low-risk PCa. Of 198 participants who progressed, 101 (51%) had baseline International Society of Urological Pathology Grade Group 1, 59 (30%) Grade Group 2, and 38 (19%) Grade Group 3 PCa, compared with 79%, 17% and 5%, respectively, for 1409 participants without progression (P < 0.001). In participants with progression, 38% and 62% had baseline low- and intermediate-/high-risk disease, compared with 69% and 31% of participants with stable disease (P < 0.001). Treatment received, age (65-69 vs 50-64 years), PSA level, Grade Group, clinical stage, risk group, number of positive cores, tumour length and perineural invasion were associated with time to progression (P ≤ 0.005). Men progressing after surgery (n = 19) were more likely to have a higher Grade Group and pathological stage at surgery, larger tumours, lymph node involvement and positive margins. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that one-third of the ProtecT cohort consists of people with intermediate-/high-risk disease, and the outcomes data at an average of 10 years' follow-up are generalizable beyond men with low-risk PCa.

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Prostate cancer, pathology, risk stratification, Aged, Cohort Studies, Disease Progression, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Kallikreins, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Staging, Prostate-Specific Antigen, Prostatic Neoplasms, Risk Assessment, Time Factors

Journal Title

BJU Int

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Journal ISSN

1464-4096
1464-410X

Volume Title

125

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (via University of Oxford) (HTA no. 96/20/99)