To evaluate the accuracy in histologic grading of MRI/US image fusion biopsy by comparing conventional 12-core TRUS-Bx at radical prostatectomy specimens (RP).
Consecutive patients diagnosed prostate cancer (127 with combination of both targeted biopsy (TBx) plus systematic biopsies (SBx) and separate patient cohort of 330 conventional TRUS-Bx without mpMRI) with a PSA level of <20 ng/ml prior to RP were included. The primary end point was the grade group concordance between biopsy and RP pathology according to biopsy technique.
Clinically significant prostate cancer detection was 51.2 % for TRUS-Bx, 49.5 % for SBx, 67% for TBx and 75.7% for TBx+SBx . Upgrading and downgrading of at least one Gleason Grade Group (GGG) was recorded in 43.3% / 6.7% patients of the TRUS-Bx, and in 20.5% / 22 % of the TBX+SBx group, respectively (all p<0.001). Concordance level was detected to be significantly higher for ISUP 1 in combined TBx + SBx method compared to conventional TRUS-Bx (61.3% vs 37.9%, p=0.014). In ISUP 1 exclusively, significant upgrading was seen in TRUS-Bx (62.1%) when compared to TBx (41.4%) and TBx+SBx (38.7%).
MRI-targeted biopsies detected more significant PCa than TRUS-Bx but, superiority in significant cancer detection appears as a result of inadvertant selective sampling of small higher grade areas. within an otherwise low grade cancer and does not reflect accurate GGG final surgical pathology. TBx+SBx has the greatest concordance in ISUP Grade 1 with less upgrading which is utmost important for active surveillance.
International journal of clinical practice. 2020 Oct 28 [Epub ahead of print]
Güven Aslan, Serdar Çelik, Sinan Sözen, Bülent Akdoğan, Volkan İzol, Cenk Yücel Bilen, Bahadır Sahin, Levent Türkeri, Members of Urooncology Association
Department of Urology, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey., Department of Urology, Bozyaka Training and Resarch Hospital, Izmir, Turkey., Department of Urology, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey., Department of Urology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey., Department of Urology, Çukurova University, Ankara, Turkey., Department of Urology, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey., Department of Urology, Acıbadem University, Istanbul, Turkey.