Does expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and vascular endothelial growth factor-C correlate with lymphangiogenesis and lymphatic invasion in human gastric cancer?
Our data suggest that the expression of COX-2 correlates with VEGF-C expression and both of them correlate with the presence of lymphatic invasion and prognosis in gastric cancer. COX-2-mediated VEGF-C overexpression might promote lymphatic invasion via lymphangiogenesis pathway in patients with gastric cancer.
Prostatic carcinoma must be systematically excluded by ultrasound-guided biopsies in all patients with clinical granulomatous prostatitis and persistently elevated PSA three months after intravesical BCG instillations.