Is acute radiation-induced nocturia in prostate cancer patients associated with pretreatment symptoms , radical prostatectomy , and genetic markers in the TGFβ1 gene?
Radical prostatectomy, the presence of pretreatment nocturia symptoms, and the variant alleles of TGFβ1 -509 C>T and codon 10 T>C are identified as factors involved in the development of acute radiation-induced nocturia. These findings may contribute to the research on prediction of late nocturia after IMRT for prostate cancer.
These results concerning malaria (and its epidemiological data) in Mayotte show that the initial use of an Optimal IT test instead of the thin/thick blood smear results in a faster management of patients with malaria, although the Optimal IT test is slightly less sensitive and requires training/practice.