Endogenous testosterone mirrors prostate cancer aggressiveness: correlation between basal testosterone serum levels and prostate cancer European Urology Association clinical risk classes in a large cohort of Caucasian patients.
Alessandro TafuriMarco SebbenAliasger ShakirMarco PirozziTania ProcessaliRiccardo RizzettoNelia AmigoniMatteo BrunelliFilippo MiglioriniSalvatore SiracusanoMaria Angela CerrutoWalter ArtibaniAlessandro AntonelliAntonio Benito PorcaroPublished in: International urology and nephrology (2020)
Basal TT levels are positively associated with low, intermediate and high EAU risk classes. The association is significant for the high-risk class when compared to the low-risk group, but was lost in locally advanced risk class. In PCA patients, high TT serum levels are associated with high-risk disease. Endogenous TT should be considered as a biological marker for assessing EAU PCA risk classes.
Keyphrases
- prostate cancer
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- radical prostatectomy
- squamous cell carcinoma
- clinical trial
- radiation therapy
- replacement therapy
- lymph node
- neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- open label
- study protocol
- african american
- urinary tract
- breast cancer risk