What are Partin tables?
The Partin Tables use clinical features of prostate cancer – Gleason score, serum PSA, and clinical stage – to predict whether the tumor will be confined to the prostate. The tables are based on the accumulated experience of urologists performing radical prostatectomy at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute.
What is T1c prostate cancer?
According to the TNM classification system, T1c prostate cancers are malignancies identified with needle biopsy (performed, for example, because of an elevated PSA level) that are not detectable at digital rectal examination or imaging (usually transrectal ultrasonography [US]) (3).
What is T2a Prostatecancer?
T2a: The tumor has invaded one-half (or less) of one side of the prostate. T2b: The tumor has spread to more than one-half of one side of the prostate, but not to both sides. T2c: The cancer has invaded both sides of the prostate.
What is Capra score?
The CAPRA score — which stands for “Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment” score — was developed at the University of San Francisco as a method to assess risk of prostate cancer progression based on risk for metastases or prostate cancer-specific mortality.
What is a Han table?
The Han tables were designed to predict the probability of the first evidence of recurrence (detectable PSA level) after surgery. Similar to the Partin tables, the Han tables correlate the three common factors known about a man’s prostate cancer, PSA level, Gleason score, and clinical stage (or pathological stage).
Is a Gleason score of 9 a death sentence?
There is a perception among a lot of patients — especially when they get diagnosed — that having a high Gleason score of 8, 9, or 10 is essentially a “death sentence”, regardless of how they get treated. This is not actually the case at all. Plenty of men with Gleason 8 to 10 disease actually do well after treatment.
What is a high risk Gleason score?
High risk. A Gleason score of 8 or higher, accompanied by a PSA level of higher than 20 ng/ml and a more advanced tumor stage, signifies a high risk of advancing cancer. In high-risk cases, the prostate cancer tissue looks very different from normal tissue.
What is Capra for?
The CAPRA score offers a straightforward and accurate way for physcians and their patients to evaluate prosate cancer risk, and has been shown to predict pathologic stage, PSA recurrence, and distant outcomes (metastasis and mortality) following a range of treatment strategies.
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