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Fig. 1 (A) Gross anatomy of the male reproductive tract showing the location of the prostate.
LifeART (and/or) MediClip image copyright (2008) Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc./Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved. The dashed black line indicates the cross section
shown in (B) depicting the zones (TZ: transition zone, CZ: central zone, PZ: peripheral zone)
and the prevalence of cancer found within each of the zones. U indicates the urethra. A
depiction of the cell layers found within the prostate is shown in (C). Basal cells give rise to the
more differentiated luminal and neuroendocrine (NE) cells as indicated by the arrow
