（1）Age ≥18 years, male.（2）Patients with a pathological diagnosis of prostate cancer, or patients with benign prostatic diseases who undergo diagnostic workup or treatment and are eligible to serve as control samples.（3）Patients who undergo prostate biopsy, transurethral prostate surgery, radical prostatectomy, or other relevant diagnostic or therapeutic procedures at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University.（4）Have available residual tissue samples, formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues, frozen tissues, pathological slides, or existing assay data that can be used for research purposes.（5）Have basic clinicopathological data available; postoperative PSA and follow-up information may be obtained when necessary.（6）For subjects from whom additional residual samples are prospectively collected, or for those who need to be actively contacted for supplementary data, the subject or their legal representative must consent to participate in the study and sign the informed consent form.
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（1）Insufficient sample quantity or sample quality that fails to meet the requirements for the intended assays.（2）Severe deficiency in clinicopathological data, rendering the primary analyses unfeasible.（3）Definite risk of contamination during sample storage, transportation, sectioning, extraction, or library preparation, which cannot be reliably ruled out or eliminated through quality control procedures.（4）The patient explicitly refuses to allow their samples or clinical data to be used for research.（5）Other conditions deemed unsuitable for inclusion by the investigator or the ethics committee.
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