An updated prostate cancer staging nomogram (Partin tables) based on cases from 2006 to 2011

• Published in: BJU international Vol. 111; no. 1; pp. 22 - 29
• Main Authors: Eifler, John B., Feng, Zhaoyang, Lin, Brian M., Partin, Michael T., Humphreys, Elizabeth B., Han, Misop, Epstein, Jonathan I., Walsh, Patrick C., Trock, Bruce J., Partin, Alan W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Wiley-Blackwell 01.01.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics; Humans; Lymph Node Excision - methods; Lymphatic Metastasis; Male; Male genital diseases; Medical sciences; Men; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Grading; Neoplasm Staging; Nephrology. Urinary tract diseases; Nomograms; prostage‐specific antigen; prostate cancer; Prostate-Specific Antigen - blood; prostatectomy; Prostatectomy - methods; Prostatic Neoplasms - blood; Prostatic Neoplasms - pathology; Prostatic Neoplasms - surgery; Risk Factors; staging; Tumors; Tumors of the urinary system; Urinary tract. Prostate gland; Nephrology; Urinary system disease; Prostate disease; Staging; Nomogram; Stage classification; Malignant tumor; Urology; Treatment; prostage-specific antigen; Surgery; Nomograms; Prostatectomy; Antigen specific; Male genital diseases; Prostate cancer; Cancer

What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Pathological stage after radical prostatectomy can be accurately predicted by serum prostate‐specific antigen level, clinical stage and biopsy Gleason sum, the ‘Partin tables’. Since the previous publication of the Partin tables, an upda...