Prostate Cancer

Presence of apoptotic bodies could be used in diagnosis of prostate cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 24th, 2006

The presence of apoptotic bodies is a histological feature that could be used in the diagnosis of challenging cases of prostate cancer.

"There is limited published data regarding the significance of the number or position of nucleoli and the presence of apoptotic bodies in diagnostically challenging cases of adenocarcinoma of the prostate on needle biopsy material. One hundred consecutive prostate cancers on needle biopsy were sent because of diagnostic difficulty to an expert in urological pathology, and the remaining normal benign prostatic glands on the same core were evaluated for the number and location of nucleoli and for the presence of mitotic figures and...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-01-24)

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