Evaluation of Mediators Associated with the Inflammatory Response in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy

Table 3

Results of one-way analysis of variance for repeated measures for all considered markers. Best trend for marker values as a function of time is reported.

	Best trend	value
IL-1b	Cubic	0.34
IL-6	Quadratic	0.16
CXCL8	Linear	0.19
CCL2	Linear	0.01
TNF alpha	Quadratic	0.07
PTX3	Quadratic	0.06

Statistically significant.