altered in prostate cancer. To determine the prevalence and clinical significance of the
different mechanisms of PTEN inactivation, we analyzed PTEN deletions in TMAs containing
4699 hormone-naïve and 57 hormone-refractory prostate cancers using fluorescence in situ
hybridization analysis. PTEN mutations and methylation were analyzed in subsets of 149
and 34 tumors, respectively. PTEN deletions were present in 20.2%(458/2266) of prostate …