Cellular Oncology (Jan 2009)

Large Scale Genomic Instability as an Additive Prognostic Marker in Early Prostate Cancer

  • Maria E. Pretorius,
  • Håkon Wæhre,
  • Vera M. Abeler,
  • Ben Davidson,
  • Ljiljana Vlatkovic,
  • Ragnhild A. Lothe,
  • Karl-Erik Giercksky,
  • Håvard E. Danielsen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3233/CLO-2009-0463
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 31, no. 4
pp. 251 – 259

Abstract

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Background: The clinical outcome for the individual prostate cancer patient is often difficult to predict, due to lack of reliable independent prognostic biomarkers. We tested DNA ploidy as a prognostic factor for clinical outcome in 186 patients treated with radical prostatectomy.