Reclassification rates are higher among African American men than Caucasians on active surveillance

D Sundi, FA Faisal, BJ Trock, PK Landis, Z Feng… - Urology, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the risk of reclassification on serial biopsy for Caucasian and African
American (AA) men with very low-risk (VLR) prostate cancer enrolled in a large prospective …

Next generation sequencing of urine exfoliated cells: an approach of prostate cancer microRNAs research

G Guelfi, G Cochetti, V Stefanetti, D Zampini… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
There is emerging evidence that microRNAs (miRNAs) dysregulation is involved in the
genesis and the progression of Prostate Cancer (PCa), thus potentially increasing their use …

Can we expand active surveillance criteria to include biopsy Gleason 3+ 4 prostate cancer? A multi-institutional study of 2,323 patients

G Ploussard, H Isbarn, A Briganti… - … Oncology: Seminars and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To test the expandability of active surveillance (AS) to Gleason score 3+ 4 cancers
by assessing the unfavorable disease risk in a large multi-institutional cohort. Materials and …

Evaluation of new tests and interventions for prostate cancer management: a systematic review

G Olleik, W Kassouf, A Aprikian, J Hu… - Journal of the National …, 2018 - jnccn.org
Background: Inaccurate risk classification and the burden of unnecessary biopsies are a
challenge due to the limited ability of current risk assessment tools and modalities to …

PHI and PCA3 improve the prognostic performance of PRIAS and Epstein criteria in predicting insignificant prostate cancer in men eligible for active surveillance

F Cantiello, GI Russo, A Cicione, M Ferro… - World journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose To assess the performance of prostate health index (PHI) and prostate cancer
antigen 3 (PCA3) when added to the PRIAS or Epstein criteria in predicting the presence of …

Urinary microRNA-based signature improves accuracy of detection of clinically relevant prostate cancer within the prostate-specific antigen grey zone

AI Salido-Guadarrama… - Molecular …, 2016 - spandidos-publications.com
At present, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is used as a clinical biomarker for prostate cancer
(PCa) diagnosis; however, a large number of patients with benign prostate hyperplasia …

Cancer stem cell markers in prostate cancer: an immunohistochemical study of ALDH1, SOX2 and EZH2

A Matsika, B Srinivasan, C Day, SA Mader, DM Kiernan… - Pathology, 2015 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to investigate the immunohisto-chemical expression and
potential prognostic significance of putative cancer stems cell markers ALDH1, EZH2 and …

The use of targeted MR-guided prostate biopsy reduces the risk of Gleason upgrading on radical prostatectomy

C Arsov, N Becker, R Rabenalt, A Hiester… - Journal of cancer …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Gleason grading is the strongest predictor of prostate cancer outcome and
commonly used to decide for or against the different treatment options. However, Gleason …

Variation in guideline concordant active surveillance followup in diverse urology practices

AN Luckenbaugh, GB Auffenberg, SR Hawken… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose We examined the frequency of followup prostate specific antigen testing and
prostate biopsy among men treated with active surveillance in the academic and community …

[HTML][HTML] Low serum total testosterone level as a predictor of upstaging and upgrading in low-risk prostate cancer patients meeting the inclusion criteria for active …

M Ferro, G Lucarelli, D Bruzzese, G Di Lorenzo… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Active surveillance (AS) is currently a widely accepted treatment option for men with
clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa). Several reports have highlighted the association …