Circulating levels of IL-6 and TGF-β1 in patients with prostate cancer undergoing radiotherapy: associations with acute radiotoxicity and fatigue symptoms.

BMC Cancer · 2022 · PMC9652872 · PMID 36368974

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close to being significantp = 0.052so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

However, a negative correlation very close to being significant between TGF-β1 concentrations after the 25 th radiotherapy fraction and maximum grades of late GI toxicity was observed ( p = 0.052).

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tendency towards significanceno p-value reported

TGF-β1 serum levels after the 25 th fraction were positively correlated with maximum GU toxicity grades, although this correlation was not statistically significant, but showed a tendency towards significance.

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