Future-proofing Gleason Grading: What to Call Gleason 6 Prostate Cancer?

Stacy Loeb; Francesco Montorsi; James W Catto

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2015.02.038

Future-proofing Gleason Grading: What to Call Gleason 6 Prostate Cancer?

Eur Urol. 2015 Jul;68(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2015.02.038. Epub 2015 Mar 11.

Authors

Stacy Loeb¹, Francesco Montorsi², James W Catto³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology and Population Health, New York University, NY, USA. Electronic address: stacyloeb@gmail.com.
² Division of Oncology/Unit of Urology, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
³ Academic Urology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

Abstract

At the 2014 International Society of Urological Pathology meeting, changes to prostate cancer grading were discussed including new prognostic Gleason grade groups 1-5 representing Gleason scores of 3+3, 3+4, 4+3, 8, and 9-10, respectively.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Consensus Development Conferences as Topic
Humans
Male
Neoplasm Grading*
Prognosis
Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
Terminology as Topic

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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