PROGNOSTIC FACTORS OF BIOCHEMICAL RECURRENCE AFTER RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY FOR LOCALIZED AND LOCALLY-ADVANCED PROSTATE CANCER

Purpose. To reveal prognostic factors of PSA-failure following radical prostatectomy in patients with localized and locally-advanced prostate cancer.

Materials and methods. Medical data of 386 consecutive patients with localized and locally-advanced prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy from 1997 to 2011 were analyzed. Median age was 61.0 years. Median PSA before surgery – 10.3 ng/ml. Plasma levels of VEGF, VEGFR2, VEGFR3, TGF-β1, CD105, IL-6 were measured using Enzyme Linked-Immuno-Sorbent Assay (ELISA) before radical prostatectomy in 77 patients. Postoperatively the tumours were categorized as pT2 in 288 (59.1 %), pT3 – in 144 (37.3 %), pT4 – in 14 (3.6); pN+ – in 34 (8.8 %) cases. Gleason score < 7 was present in 254 (65.8 %),  7 – in 132 (34.2 %) specimens. Perineural invasion was identified in 188 (48.7 %), angiolymphatic invasion – in 126 (32.6) cases.

Results. Biochemical recurrence occurred in 64 (16.6 %) out of 386 patients at a median follow-up of 30.5 (12−164) months. Independent predictors of biochemical recurrence were PSA (HR 0.161 (95% CI:0.058−0.449); р = 0.001), Gleason sum in surgical specimens (HR 0.496 (95 % CI:0.268−0.917); p = 0.025), pN (HR 0.415 (95 % CI:0.181−0.955); p = 0.039). The patients were divided into 3 prognostic groups: good (0 factor), intermediate (1 factor), poor (2 factors) and very poor (3 factors) (AUC – 0.720 (95% CI: 0.656−0.784)). High preoperative levels VEGF ( 67 pg/ml) (р = 0.005), VEGFR2 ( 3149 pg/ml) (р = 0.036), VEGFR3 ( 2268 pg/ml) (р = 0.001), TGF-β1 ( 14473 pg/ml) (р = 0.052) were identified as unfavorable prognostic factors for survival without PSA-failure.

Conclusion. Independent prognostic factors of biochemical recurrence after prostatectomy were PSA, Gleason sum and pN. Joint effect of the factors allows to predict PSA-relapse with accuracy 0.720. Preoperative serum levels VEGF, VEGFR2, VEGFR3, TGF-β1 potentially are perspective markers for PSA-failure after surgical treatment prostate cancer, further trials are needed.