Nicolas Destefanis, Valentina Fiano, Lorenzo Milani, Paolo Vasapolli, Michelangelo Fiorentino, Francesca Giunchi, Luca Lianas, Mauro Del Rio, Francesca Frexia, Luca Pireddu, Luca Molinaro, Paola Cassoni, Mauro Giulio Papotti, Paolo Gontero, Giorgio Calleris, Marco Oderda, Umberto Ricardi, Giuseppe Carlo Iorio, Piero Fariselli, Elena Isaevska, Olof Akre, Renata Zelic, Andreas Pettersson, Daniela Zugna, Lorenzo Richiardi
INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequent tumor among men in Europe and has both indolent and aggressive forms. There are several treatment options, the choice of which depends on multiple factors. To further improve current prognostication models, we established the Turin Prostate Cancer Prognostication (TPCP) cohort, an Italian retrospective biopsy cohort of patients with PCa and long-term follow-up. This work presents this new cohort with its main characteristics and the distributions of some of its core variables, along with its potential contributions to PCa research...
2023: Frontiers in Oncology