Testosterone as a predictor of pathological stage in clinically localized prostate cancer.

Journal article

PURPOSE: Substantial controversy exists in the literature regarding the association between pretreatment testosterone and disease outcome in patients with prostate cancer. We explored the relationship between preoperative total testosterone, and pathological stage and progression in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the records of consecutive patients with clinically localized prostate canc...

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Authors: Isom-Batz, G; Bianco, F; Kattan, M; Mulhall, J; Lilja, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of urology
• Volume: 173
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1935-1937
• Publication date: 2005-06-01
• DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000158040.33531.e7
• EISSN: 1527-3792
• ISSN: 0022-5347
• Language: English
• Keywords: Prostate-Specific Antigen; Prostatic Neoplasms; Prostatectomy; Statistics as Topic; Disease Progression; Regression Analysis; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Prostate; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Neoplasm Staging; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Retrospective Studies; Multivariate Analysis; Male; Reproducibility of Results; Tumor Markers, Biological