Prostate Cancer

Studies from M. Poli and co-researchers in the area of prostate cancer published

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 23rd, 2008

According to a study from Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Background and Objective Intraoperative autologous blood recovery during radical retro pubic prostatectomy has the potential of contamination with tumour cells. Its safety is proved by similar survival rates between allogeneic and autologous transfusion to oncology patients without standardization."

"Silencing of the gene encoding pi class of gluthatione-S transferase is a specific and sensitive molecular marker for prostate cancer, because it is present in more than 90% of prostate tumours. Using such tumour marker, we aimed to demonstrate that viable tumour cells could be eliminated using leucodepletion filters followed by...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-23)

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