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ABSTRACT: Background
The natural history of prostate cancer is highly variable and difficult to predict accurately. Better markers are needed to guide management and avoid unnecessary treatment. In this study, we validate the prognostic value of a cell cycle progression score (CCP score) independently and in a prespecified linear combination with standard clinical variables, that is, a clinical-cell-cycle-risk (CCR) score.Methods
Paraffin sections from 761 men with clinically localized prostate cancer diagnosed by needle biopsy and managed conservatively in the United Kingdom, mostly between 2000 and 2003. The primary end point was prostate cancer death. Clinical variables consisted of centrally reviewed Gleason score, baseline PSA level, age, clinical stage, and extent of disease; these were combined into a single predefined risk assessment (CAPRA) score. Full data were available for 585 men who formed a fully independent validation cohort.Results
In univariate analysis, the CCP score hazard ratio was 2.08 (95% CI (1.76, 2.46), P<10(-13)) for one unit change of the score. In multivariate analysis including CAPRA, the CCP score hazard ratio was 1.76 (95% CI (1.44, 2.14), P<10(-6)). The predefined CCR score was highly predictive, hazard ratio 2.17 (95% CI (1.83, 2.57), ?(2)=89.0, P<10(-20)) and captured virtually all available prognostic information.Conclusions
The CCP score provides significant pretreatment prognostic information that cannot be provided by clinical variables and is useful for determining which patients can be safely managed conservatively, avoiding radical treatment.
SUBMITTER: Cuzick J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4522632 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cuzick J J Stone S S Fisher G G Yang Z H ZH North B V BV Berney D M DM Beltran L L Greenberg D D Møller H H Reid J E JE Gutin A A Lanchbury J S JS Brawer M M Scardino P P
British journal of cancer 20150623 3
<h4>Background</h4>The natural history of prostate cancer is highly variable and difficult to predict accurately. Better markers are needed to guide management and avoid unnecessary treatment. In this study, we validate the prognostic value of a cell cycle progression score (CCP score) independently and in a prespecified linear combination with standard clinical variables, that is, a clinical-cell-cycle-risk (CCR) score.<h4>Methods</h4>Paraffin sections from 761 men with clinically localized pro ...[more]