Use of quantitative gene expression in primary and highest Gleason pattern cancers to identify genes associated with clinical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.

39 Background: Prostate biopsy may not adequately sample small, secondary or tertiary Gleason pattern tumors which can drive clinical outcome. We conducted a study to determine whether tumor-derived gene expression profiling could identify a distinct underlying biology associated with clinical recurrence (cR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) across both the primary and highest Gleason pattern (GP) samples. Methods: All patients (pts) with...