e-Article
Low serum testosterone predicts upgrading and upstaging of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Asian Journal of Andrology, Vol 18, Iss 4, Pp 639-643 (2016)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1008-682X
1745-7262
1745-7262
Abstract
Often, pathological Gleason Score (GS) and stage of prostate cancer (PCa) were inconsistent with biopsy GS and clinical stage. However, there were no widely accepted methods predicting upgrading and upstaging PCa. In our study, we investigated the association between serum testosterone and upgrading or upstaging of PCa after radical prostatectomy (RP). We enrolled 167 patients with PCa with biopsy GS ≤6, clinical stage ≤T2c, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA)