| Summary: | Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer among men. The use of IL-17A and its receptor IL-17RA as prognostic markers for PCa has shown promising results. We analyzed the clinical data of 77 patients with PCa after radical prostatectomy with lymphadenectomy and lymph node metastasis (LN+). We assessed the expression levels of IL-17A and IL-17RA in cancer cells in prostate and, for the first time, also in LN+. Prostate IL-17A expression positively correlated with BMI (<i>p</i> = 0.028). In LN+, the expression of IL-17A was positively correlated with the percentage of affected lymph nodes (<i>p</i> = 0.006) and EAU risk groups (<i>p</i> = 0.001). Additionally, in the group with high IL-17A expression in LN+, the extracapsular extension (ECE) of the prostate was significantly more frequent (<i>p</i> = 0.033). Also, significant correlations with the level of IL-17RA expression was found—expression was higher in prostate than in LN+ (<i>p</i> = 0.009); in LN+, expression positively correlated with the EAU risk group (<i>p</i> = 0.045), and in the group of high expression in LN+ ECE of lymph nodes was detected significantly more often (<i>p</i> = 0.009). Our findings support the potential role of IL-17A and IL-17RA as PCa markers; however, further studies are needed to determine their roles and potential clinical applications.
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