Eight year improvement in pathological results after radical prostatectomy.

The purpose of this paper is to compare the pathological stage of prostate cancer specimens with preoperative characteristics according to the year of diagnosis. One hundred and seventy five patients underwent radical prostatectomy for localized disease between January 1989 and December 1996. In each year group, the mean preoperative PSA (Prostate Substance Antigen, Hybutech((R)) Assay Nl