[A histological evaluation of the therapeutic effects and the clinical findings in prostatic carcinomas]

A histological evaluation of the effects of therapy has been conducted on 22 prostatic carcinoma cases, according to the criterion proposed by the committee to establish the general rule for clinical and pathological studies judging the effects of therapy in cases of prostatic cancer. Studied in particular was the relation between the histological effects of therapy and the clinical course. Marked therapeutic effects were observed in cases of low grade tumors. Further, the patients' prognosis tended to be affected by the histological grade rather than by the histological effect of the treatment. The course of the serum total acid phosphatase levels tended to correlate with the histological effect of the treatment.