A novel positive surgical margin-based scoring system to predict oncologic outcomes after radical prostatectomy.

BMC Surg · 2026 · PMC13141326 · PMID 41888787

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.086so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

showed a trendno p-value reported

Preoperative PSA showed a trend toward higher values in high-risk patients (median 12.8 ng/mL) than in low-risk patients (6.2 ng/mL), although this did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.086).

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