Anticancer Activity of Green Tea Polyphenols in Prostate Gland

Table 3

Principal progressive phases in human PCa development.

Definition	Acronyms	STAGE of PCa development	STAGE where CTCs could be possibly used
Proliferative Inflammatory Atrophy	PIA	Precursor of cancer initiation	YES
Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia	MILD PIN	PreMalignancy	YES
	HIGH PIN	Malignancy	YES
Adenocarcinoma	WD	Well-differentiated Cancer	NO
	PD	POOR differentiated Cancer	NO
Fully Developed Metastatic Neoplasia	CRPC	Hormone refractory castration resistant Terminal cancer	NO