The impact of race/ethnicity on upstaging and/or upgrading rates among intermediate risk prostate cancer patients treated with radical prostatectomy.
Luigi NoceraMike WenzelClaudia Collà RuvoloChristoph WürnschimmelZhe TianGiorgio GandagliaNicola FossatiFelix K H ChunVincenzo MironeMarkus GraefenFred SaadShahrokh F ShariatFrancesco MontorsiAlberto BrigantiPierre I KarakiewiczPublished in: World journal of urology (2021)
Race/ethnicity predisposes to differences in clinical, as well as in pathological characteristics in IR PCa patients. Specifically, even after full statistical adjustment, Hispanic/Latinos are at higher and African-Americans are at lower risk of upstaging and/or upgrading.