title: Post-radical prostatectomy predictive factors for biochemical recurrence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify post-prostatectomy prognostic factors for biochemical recurrence (BR).
  
  
  METHODS
  We retrospectively analyze a series of patients with clinically localized prostate cancer who were treated with radical prostatectomy (RP)as monotherapy between 1996 and 2007, pN0-pNx, with a minimum of 12 months of follow-up. BR is considered to be persistence or elevation in PSA after RP greater than 0.4 ng/ml on the subsequent determination. Analyzed variables were Gleason Score, pathological stage, surgical margin involvement, capsular involvement, and perineural involvement. We performed univariate and multivariate analysis using the chi squared test and proportional Cox risk model in order to determine the variables associated with BR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We included 693 patients. Mean age was 63.5 years with a mean follow-up of 88.5 months. Mean PSA was 9.2 ng-ml. BR was observed in 218 patients, 43 due to biochemical persistence. More common pathological findings were Gleason score 7 (47.1%), and pathological stage pT2c (60.1%). Mean time to BR was 35.5 months with 91.2% occurring in the first 8 years. On multivariate analysis, Gleason score ≥ 7(4+3), pathological stage pT3b and positive surgical margin were independent predictors of BR.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gleason Score ≥ 7(4+3), positive surgical margins and pathological stage pT3 are independent prognostic factors associated with BR-free survival.
authors.affiliation: Urology Department.Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada y Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañon.Madrid. Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Molina Escudero
authors.forename: Felipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Herranz Amo
authors.forename: Alvaro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Páez Borda
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hernández Fernández
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D060787:Neoplasm Grading; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies