The association between circulating total testosterone (T) levels and clinically significant PCa is still a matter of debate. In this study, we evaluated whether serum testosterone levels may have a role in predicting unfavorable disease (UD) and biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients with clinically localized (≤ cT2c) ISUP grade group 1 PCa at biopsy.

Circulating preoperative testosterone level predicts unfavourable disease at radical prostatectomy in men with International Society of Urological Pathology Grade Group 1 prostate cancer diagnosed with systematic biopsies / Ferro, Matteo; Lucarelli, Giuseppe; de Cobelli, Ottavio; Vartolomei, Mihai Dorin; Damiano, Rocco; Cantiello, Francesco; Crocerossa, Fabio; Perdonà, Sisto; Del Prete, Paola; Cordima, Giovanni; Musi, Gennaro; Del Giudice, Francesco; Busetto, Gian Maria; Chung, Benjamin I; Porreca, Angelo; Ditonno, Pasquale; Battaglia, Michele; Terracciano, Daniela. - In: WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. - ISSN 0724-4983. - 39:6(2021), pp. 1861-1867. [10.1007/s00345-020-03368-9]

Circulating preoperative testosterone level predicts unfavourable disease at radical prostatectomy in men with International Society of Urological Pathology Grade Group 1 prostate cancer diagnosed with systematic biopsies

Ferro, Matteo;Lucarelli, Giuseppe;Musi, Gennaro;Terracciano, Daniela
2021

Abstract

The association between circulating total testosterone (T) levels and clinically significant PCa is still a matter of debate. In this study, we evaluated whether serum testosterone levels may have a role in predicting unfavorable disease (UD) and biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients with clinically localized (≤ cT2c) ISUP grade group 1 PCa at biopsy.
2021
Circulating preoperative testosterone level predicts unfavourable disease at radical prostatectomy in men with International Society of Urological Pathology Grade Group 1 prostate cancer diagnosed with systematic biopsies / Ferro, Matteo; Lucarelli, Giuseppe; de Cobelli, Ottavio; Vartolomei, Mihai Dorin; Damiano, Rocco; Cantiello, Francesco; Crocerossa, Fabio; Perdonà, Sisto; Del Prete, Paola; Cordima, Giovanni; Musi, Gennaro; Del Giudice, Francesco; Busetto, Gian Maria; Chung, Benjamin I; Porreca, Angelo; Ditonno, Pasquale; Battaglia, Michele; Terracciano, Daniela. - In: WORLD JOURNAL OF UROLOGY. - ISSN 0724-4983. - 39:6(2021), pp. 1861-1867. [10.1007/s00345-020-03368-9]
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