[Prognostic factors in stage D2 prostate cancer: results of univariate and multivariate analyses]

To evaluate prognostic factors in stage D2 prostate cancer, 235 patients who had been treated with endocrine therapy were investigated. With univariate analysis, performance status, hemoglobin concentration, serum alkaline phosphatase, LDH, histological grade, extent of disease (EOD), and response of tumor markers at 3 months were shown to be significant prognostic factors. To compare these 7 factors, multivariate analyses was performed in 196 cases. Cox proportional hazard model demonstrated that LDH, followed by response of tumor markers at 3 months, histological grade, and EOD were significant for predicting prognosis. We concluded that the patients whose serum LDH was above the normal range and/or whose tumor markers were not or had not been normalized 3 months after the onset of endocrine therapy were in the high risk group, and should be given more aggressive treatment.