The Japanese Journal of Urology
Online ISSN : 1884-7110
Print ISSN : 0021-5287
ISSN-L : 0021-5287
PROGNOSTIC FACTOR FOR PROSTATE CANCER
Kyoichi Imai, Takanori Suzuki, Masamichi Hayashi, Yasuo Nakazawa, Seizi Nakata, Hidetoshi Yamanaka, Koichi Kitaura, Yukio Tomaru, Masaya Miki, Nobuo Kato, Jin Sato, Hirotomo Takahashi, Atsushi Koya, Hiroshi Kuribara, Takeo Makino, Kazunori Ebihara, Tadatoshi Shinozaki, Isao Kurosawa, Iwao Matsushita, Hiroyuki Takeuchi
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Keywords: prostate cancer, prognostic factors
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1990 Volume 81 Issue 8 Pages 1217-1224

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Abstract

The study of prognostic factors in patients with prostate cancer (Pca) may be of value in understanding the natural history of the disease and may also assist in planning and analyzing the results of clinical trials. Moreover some information through this study would be beneficial to assessing the prognosis and decision of better therapy form of individual patients.
The significance of items studied was evaluated from the two viwe points, survival rate and Pca death rate. Stage, pathological differentiation and acid phosphatase were significantly related to them, in the category grade depending manner. Past history and complication, and age were also significantly related to them but higher category grade as a survival factor showed lower Pca death rates. ESR, gait disturbance and hematuria were related to only survival rate. Any significant relationship was not observed in serum testosterone, voiding disturbance and cancer-pain. Prognostic factors should be clinically used through the well understanding of each characteristics. This paper also showed that statistical significance not always provide a wide difference between categories compared.

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