Does extensive biopsy protocol improve the detection rate of prostate cancer?
Increasing the number of biopsy cores and improving prostate peripheral zone sampling resulted in a significant improvement in the detection of prostate cancer.
Our findings suggest that the G-allele of TNF-α -308 is associated with a significantly higher TNF-α mRNA expression compared to the A-allele and that this also reflects in TGF-β expression. Therefore we support the thesis that TGF-β is regulated by TNF-α.