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Item Does prostate acinar adenocarcinoma with Gleason Score 3 + 3 = 6 have the potential to metastasize?(BioMed Central, 2014-10-18) Montironi, Rodolfo; Scarpelli, Marina; Mazzucchelli, Roberta; Lopez-Beltran, Antonio; Santoni, Matteo; Briganti, Alberto; Montorsi, Francesco; Cheng, Liang; Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, School of MedicineBackground: There is a worldwide debate involving clinicians, uropathologists as well as patients and their families on whether Gleason score 6 adenocarcinoma should be labelled as cancer. Case description: We report a case of man diagnosed with biopsy Gleason score 6 acinar adenocarcinoma and classified as low risk (based on a PSA of 5 ng/mL and stage cT2a) whose radical prostatectomy specimen initially showed organ confined Gleason score 3 + 3 = 6, WHO nuclear grade 3, acinar adenocarcinoma with lymphovascular invasion and secondary deposit in a periprostatic lymph node. When deeper sections were cut to the point that almost all the slice present in the paraffin block was sectioned, a small tumor area (<5% of the whole tumor) of Gleason pattern 4 (poorly formed glands) was found in an extraprostatic position. Conclusion: The epilogue was that the additional finding changed the final Gleason score to 3 + 3 = 6 with tertiary pattern 4 and the stage to pT3a. Virtual Slides: The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/ vs/13000_2014_190