Radical Prostatectomy for High-risk Prostate Cancer Defined by Preoperative Criteria: Oncologic Follow-up in National Multicenter Study in 813 Patients and Assessment of Easy-to-use Prognostic Substratification

The median follow-up was 64 months. Organ-confined disease was reported in 36.5%. The 5-year RFS, metastasis-free survival, and OS rate was 74.1%, 96.1%, and 98.6%, respectively. Each preoperative criteria of high-risk PCa was an independent predictor of PSA failure. The PSA failure risk was increased by 1.5- and 2.8-fold in men with 2 and 3 criteria, respectively. The RFS, but not the OS, was significantly different according to the preoperative score (P .001). The postoperative score was significantly predictive for RFS and OS (P .001 and P .035, respectively). The risk of PSA failure was significantly increased with an increasing postoperative score (2-4.6-fold). CONCLUSION National data support evidence that RP can result in encouraging midterm oncologic outcomes for the management of high-risk PCa. At 5 years after surgery, 75% of patients remain disease free. Our easy-to-use risk stratification might help clinicians to better predict the clinical and PSA outcomes of high-risk patients after surgery. UROLOGY 78: 607‐613, 2011. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.