Intermediate risk prostate tumors contain lethal subtypes

William L. Harryman, James P. Hinton, Rafael Sainz, Jaime M. C. Gard, John M. Ryniawec, Gregory C. Rogers, Noel A. Warfel, Beatrice S. Knudsen, Raymond B. Nagle, Juan J. Chipollini, Benjamin R. Lee, Belinda L. Sun, Anne E. Cress · 2025

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William L Harryman and co-authors warn that mid-grade prostate tumors can hide killers. Their 2024 paper focuses on intermediate risk prostate cancer, most of it managed with surveillance, radiation, or surgery, and on two subtypes buried inside that label: cribriform architecture and intraductal carcinoma.

Both subtypes carry more metastasis, recurrence, and death, yet biopsy misses them up to half the time, and even guided sampling catches barely half. Finding either one can disqualify a man from surveillance. The authors argue the field needs sharper detection, from molecular study of the subtypes to AI-read pathology and live microscopy of surgical tissue. Matching each hidden subtype to its best treatment, they say, could stop quiet tumors from becoming high-risk disease.

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CREATORWilliam L. Harryman, James P. Hinton, Rafael Sainz, Jaime M. C. Gard, John M. Ryniawec, Gregory C. Rogers, Noel A. Warfel, Beatrice S. Knudsen, Raymond B. Nagle, Juan J. Chipollini, Benjamin R. Lee, Belinda L. Sun, Anne E. Cress
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE45 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11932713

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