2.1. Patient Characteristics
coagulation dysfunction, infectious or hematologic diseases
MALIGNANCIES, PROSTATE
Retrospective data were collected on 1579 patients with initial prostate biopsies performed at the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University between January 2019 and December 2021. The exclusion criteria were patients with (a) combined infectious or hematologic diseases, (b) coagulation dysfunction, (c) combined with other malignancies, (d) repeated biopsy, and (e) incomplete clinical data. Patients were randomized in a 7 : 3 ratio to the training cohort and the validation cohort (