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SAN FRANCISCO—Negative confirmatory prostate biopsies in men on active surveillance for prostate cancer (PCa) are associated with a decreased risk of progression to treatment, study findings presented at the American Urological Association 2018 annual meeting suggest.
In a retrospective study of 974 men enrolled in AS from 1997 to 2014 with a minimum follow-up of 6 months, Keyan Salari, MD, and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found that men who had a negative confirmatory biopsy had a significant 88% decreased risk of progression to treatment in multivariate analysis. Confirmatory biopsy status was not associated with the risk of adverse pathology on radical prostatectomy, metastasis-free survival, or disease-specific or overall survival.
At diagnosis, the men had a median age of 67 years and a median PSA level of 5.1 ng/mL. In addition, 97% had a Gleason score 6 or less and 92% had clinical stage T1 disease. After a median follow-up of 4.8 years, 702 men (72%) underwent a confirmatory biopsy. Of these biopsies, 67% were positive for PCa and 33% were negative.
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Of the 702 patients, 33% progressed to treatment, with pathologic progression the reason in 77% of cases.
The authors concluded that a negative confirmatory biopsy “may serve as a useful tool for prognostication and help determine the need for further repeat biopsies for men on AS.”
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Reference
Salari K, Zlatev D, Kuppermann D, et al. The prognostic impact of a negative confirmatory biopsy in men on active surveillance for prostate cancer. Data presented in poster format at the American Urological Association 2018 annual meeting, San Francisco, May 18–21. Abstract MP17-14.
