Report of Frequency of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma Stage A in Patients Operated due to BPH

Abstract

In this study 1192 cases were studied from 1986 to1996 in Imam Khomeini and Ekbatan hospitals of Hamadan province. 75 cases were found having pathologic stage A cancer (occult cancer). So the prevalence of stage A prostatic cancer is 4.78% . From statistic point it is 10%-25% . This study indicates that the prevalence of the stage A of adenocarcinoma in the studied subjects was less than those mentioned in the texts.

Keywords

• prostatic hypertrophy
• prostatic neoplasms