Combination of prostate-specific antigen, clinical stage, and Gleason score to predict pathological stage of localized prostate cancer: a multi-institutional update

AW Partin, MW Kattan, ENP Subong, PC Walsh… - Jama, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Objective.—To combine the clinical data from 3 academic institutions that serve as centers of
excellence for the surgical treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer and develop a
multi-institutional model combining serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, clinical
stage, and Gleason score to predict pathological stage for men with clinically localized
prostate cancer. Design.—In this update, we have combined clinical and pathological data
for a group of 4133 men treated by several surgeons from 3 major academic urologic …