Difference between revisions of "Prostate cancer grading"

**The Foundation series GU book (1st Ed.) defines ''Tertiary Gleason pattern'' as:<ref name=Ref_GUP72>{{Ref GUP|72}}</ref> a pattern that is seen in less than 5% of the tumour that is of a higher grade than the two dominant patterns.

**The Foundation series GU book (1st Ed.) defines ''Tertiary Gleason pattern'' as:<ref name=Ref_GUP72>{{Ref GUP|72}}</ref> a pattern that is seen in less than 5% of the tumour that is of a higher grade than the two dominant patterns.

**Koloffa ''et al''<ref name=Koloffa/> notes that some define it as: the third most prevalent pattern and most require that it is a higher grade than the two dominant patterns.

**Koloffa ''et al''<ref name=Koloffa/> notes that some define it as: the third most prevalent pattern and most require that it is a higher grade than the two dominant patterns.

**The presence of a tertiary patterns adversely affect the prognosis; however, the prognosis is not as bad as when the tertiary pattern is the secondary pattern, i.e. 3+4 tertiary 5 has a better prognosis than 3+5 (with some small amount of pattern 4).<ref name=Ref_GUP72>{{Ref GUP|72}}</ref>

**The presence of a tertiary patterns adversely affect the prognosis; however, the prognosis is not as bad as when the tertiary pattern is the secondary pattern, i.e. 3+4 tertiary 5 has a better prognosis than 3+5 (with some small amount of pattern 4).<ref name=Ref_GUP72>{{Ref GUP|72}}</ref>

**It is only used for prostatectomies.

**It is only used for prostatectomies.