Introduction: Prostate cancer is thesecond most common neoplasm in men. The prostate biopsy is the fundamental support for the therapeutic decision, the histopathological results of the surgical piece differ from those obtained in the diagnostic prostate biopsy generating under-staging or over-staging inpatients.
Materials And Methods: This study collects data from a total of 147 patients who under went radicalrobot-assisted prostatectomy at the Carlos Andrade Marín Hospital in the period January 2016 to December 2018, a statistical analysis is performed by the Chisquared test with a significance level of 5%.
Results: The percentage agreement of prostate biopsy with the histopathological result of the surgical piece was 49%, over-staging was 14% and under-staging was 35%. The Gleason score most commonly found in this study was 6 (3 + 3) both in prostate biopsy and in the radical prostatectomy surgical piece. There were 3 patients with vanishing prostate cancer in this study group.
Conclusions: The agreement of the prostate biopsy in relation to the surgical piece of radical prostatectomy is in the context of that reported in international studies, over staging does not represent a major health problem since patients could benefit from the radical prostatectomy but under-Staging could lead to the decision not to provide the patient a curative treatment of his disease tobe referred to an active surveillance protocol. Vanishing prostate cancer in this study group is explained by the use of hormonal blockade with leuprolideacetate prior to surgical treatment in two patients and a low tumor invasion in the histopathology sample of the third patient.
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