Fibre Diffraction Analysis of Skin Offers a Very Early and Extremely Accurate Diagnostic Test for Prostate Cancer

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CHANGE (in ring pattern)	Expected ORIGIN	Illustration
Pattern for controls	Normal pattern	Figure 2
A ring superimposed between the 13th and 14th meridional orders	Low grade prostate cancer	Figure 3 [11]
A ring superimposed between the 15th and 16th meridional orders	BPH (benign prostate hypertrophy)	Figure 3 [14]
A wide ring centered between the 14th and 15th meridional orders	High grade prostate cancer	Figure 4 unpublished
A sharp ring on the 17th meridional order	Perineural invasion	Figure 5 unpub.
A sharp ring on the 18th meridional order	Lymphatic invasion	Figure 5 unpub.