Table 1 Clinicopathologic characteristics of all PCa patients
Characteristics | Experiment type | |
|---|---|---|
Immunohistochemistry | Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction/western blot | |
Prostate cancer (cases) | 100 | 20 |
Age (years) | ||
≤66 | 38 | 8 |
>66 | 62 | 12 |
Preoperative serum PSA levels (ng/ml) | ||
<4 | 20 | 5 |
≥4 | 80 | 15 |
Clinical stage | ||
T1 + T2 | 52 | 12 |
T3 + T4 | 48 | 8 |
Gleason score | ||
<7 | 52 | 11 |
≥7 | 48 | 9 |
Metastasis | 10 | 2 |
Adjacent non-cancerous prostate tissue (cases) | 100 | 20 |