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Aromatase and prostate cancer.
Minerva endocrinologica - 1 Mar 2006
Ellem S J, Risbridger G P
Abstract excerpt
The normal growth and development of the prostate requires the presence and action of androgens, which are also known risk factors in the origins of benign and malignant prostate disease. Paradoxically, the incidence of prostate disease increases with age when serum androgen levels are in decline and emerging evidence suggests that estrogens may also be important in the normal prostate, as well as in the etiology...
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