To our knowledge this is the first study to establish a correlation of apoptosis induction and bcl-2 over expression with treatment outcome in patients with prostate cancer after brachytherapy. Our findings have significant clinical implications for identifying the value of the apoptotic index and bcl-2 expression in prostatic tumors for predicting the therapeutic response to brachytherapy.
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