Men With Organ-confined Prostate Cancer and Positive Surgical Margins Develop Biochemical Failure at a Similar Rate to Men With Extracapsular Extension

Surgical margin status did not affect the risk of BCF in patients with Stage pT3a disease; however, it did affect patients with Stage pT2 disease, irrespective of PSM length or disease volume. During 12 years of follow-up, the patients with PSMs and Stage pT2 disease had a risk of BCF similar to that of the patients with Stage pT3 disease.