Patients with localized prostate cancer who are on active surveillance demonstrated a low rate of active surveillance failure, prostate cancer specific mortality and metastases regardless of baseline risk.
Patients with lower BC had more severe disease characterized either by clinical symptoms, cystoscopy and pathology. Our data suggest that low BC is a biomarker for a bladdercentric manifestation of IC/BPS.
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