Clinical utility of total length Gleason pattern 4 on biopsy in men with Grade Group 2 prostate cancer

The ideal methodology for quantifying secondary Gleason pattern 4 (GP4) in men with Grade group (GrdGrp) 2/Gleason score (GS) 3+4=7 on biopsy remains unknown. We compared various methods of GP4 quantification and evaluated their association with adverse pathology at radical prostatectomy (RP).

Source: The Journal of Urology - August 1, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Lucas W. Dean, Melissa Assel, Daniel D. Sjoberg, Andrew J. Vickers, Hikmat A. Al-Ahmadie, Ying-Bei Chen, Anuradha Gopalan, S. Joseph Sirintrapun, Satish K. Tickoo, James A. Eastham, Peter T. Scardino, Victor E. Reuter, Behfar Ehdaie, Samson W. Fine Source Type: research