The Impact of Prostate Cancer Zonal Origin on Pathological Parameters at Radical Prostatectomy and Subsequent Biochemical Failure.

Purpose: We assessed the impact of prostatic zone tumor origin on pathological prognostic features and subsequent biochemical outcomes after radical prostatectomy.

Materials And Methods: A total of 7,051 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy between September 1998 and December 2016 in Western Australia were divided into a high grade group, defined as Gleason sum 4 + 3, 8 and 9 or greater and ISUP (International Society of Urological Pathology) groups 3, 4 and 5, and a low grade group, defined as Gleason sum 6 or less and 3 + 4, and ISUP groups 1 and 2. The t-test and the Pearson chi-square test were used to evaluate differences between transition zone and peripheral/central zone cancer.

Reliable identification of transition zone prostatic adenocarcinoma in preoperative needle core biopsy.

Prostatic adenocarcinomas arising within the transition zone (Tz) are distinct from peripheral zone (Pz) tumors as regards biological aggression and mechanism of extraprostatic extension. Reliable biopsy identification of Tz tumors would allow targeted surgical approaches more likely to preserve erectile function without compromising surgical margins. Previous studies have demonstrated the presence of eosinophilic cytoplasmic granules (prostate secretory granules, or PSGs) after glutaraldehye fixation, with apparent depletion in neoplasia.

Forbidden Electronic Transitions between the Singlet Ground State and the Triplet Excited State of Pt(II) Complexes.

Direct access to the triplet emitting state from the ground state is observed for Pt(II) complexes containing heterocyclic (CwedgeC', CwedgeN, NwedgeN') and bis(diphenylphosphino)alkane (PwedgeP') ligands. Extinction coefficients for such transitions are in the range 4-25 M(-)(1) cm(-)(1). Emission quantum yields resulting from singlet-to-triplet excitation are as high as 61-77 times the emission quantum yields resulting from singlet-to-singlet excitation at 296 K.