A contemporary analysis of disease upstaging of Gleason 3 + 3 prostate cancer patients after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

Ruairidh TaggartLorenzo DuttoHing Y LeungMark SaljiOwen J Sansom

Published in: Cancer medicine (2023)

Many patients who met CPG1 or EAU low-risk criteria were upgraded post-RALP and approximately 25% were upstaged due to extraprostatic disease. Upstaging puts patients at a significantly higher risk of BCR.

Keyphrases

robot assisted
prostate cancer
minimally invasive
acute lymphoblastic leukemia
dna methylation
benign prostatic hyperplasia
radical prostatectomy
gene expression