ABILITY OF 2 PRETREATMENT RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS TO PREDICT PROSTATE CANCER RECURRENCE AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY: DATA FROM CaPSURE

Stratifying patients in CaPSURE into low, intermediate and high risk categories for disease as described by D'Amico or applying the Kattan nomogram resulted in statistically significant differences in predicted 5-year FFP. However, there was considerable overlap of outcomes between the intermediate and high risk groups. This analysis suggests that simply estimating disease recurrence by stratifying patients into low, intermediate and high risk groups may not provide sufficient information for predicting outcomes among individuals.