Adult prostate sarcoma: the Memorial Sloan Kettering experience.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present our institutional experience with adult prostate sarcoma over 30 years.

Materials and methods

We reviewed 38 cases of adult prostate sarcoma diagnosed and treated at our institution between 1982 and 2012. Univariate Cox proportional hazards regression was used to determine if there was an association between specific disease characteristics (tumor size, histology, American Joint Committee on Cancer stage, and metastasis at diagnosis) and cancer-specific survival (CSS).

Results

A total of 38 patients were included, with a median age of 50 years (range, 17-73 years). Most men presented with lower urinary tract symptoms (45%), hematuria (24%), or acute urinary retention (21%). Diagnosis was established with prostate needle biopsy (68%) or transurethr

SUBMITTER: Musser JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4678959 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature