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A New Technique for Treating Low-risk Prostate Cancer—Super Active Surveillance
Published on: November 7, 2025
[Predictive factors of active surveillance interruption for prostate cancer after 5years of follow-up]
J-P Le Paih1, F Bladou1, C Klein1
1Service de chirurgie urologique, andrologie et transplantation rénale, hôpital Pellegrin, CHU de Bordeaux, place Amélie-Raba-Léon, 33000 Bordeaux, France.
Introduction And Purpose:
The objective of this work was to identify the risk factors (RFs) of active surveillance (AS) interruption in a prostate cancer (PCa) single-center retrospective cohort of patients.
Material And Method:
All patients in AS between January 2011 and October 2019 were retrospectively included in a computerized database. The group of patients who had an AS interruption was compared to the one still under AS, in order to identify potential risk factors for the interruption of the surveillance protocol.
Results:
Two hundred and two patients have been included in the AS cohort with a median follow-up of 32months. At the time of analysis, 72 patients (36%) were not under the AS protocol anymore, 118 (58%) were still under AS and 12 (6%) were lost of follow-up. Sixty-six patients (92%) had left SA due to PCa progression, 4 (5%) by personal choice and 2 (3%) switched to watchful waiting. A PSA doubling Time<3years (PSADT<3years) has been identified as the only statistically significant RF for AS interruption, both in the unvaried (P<0.001) and multivariate (OR=5.403, P<0.01) analysis. It was also the only RF of AS interruption in the early analysis in the first three years of AS, in the unvaried analysis (P=0.021) and the multivariate analysis (OR=3.612, P=0.018).
Conclusion:
PSADT was the only RF of AS early and late interruption in our study. It represents a major inclusion criterion in AS protocol during the initial assessment.
Level Of Evidence:
3.
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