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Plasma selenium, manganese superoxide dismutase, and intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 Aug 2009
Chan June M, Oh William K, Xie Wanling, Regan Meredith M, Stampfer Meir J, King Irena B, Abe Miyako, Kantoff Philip W
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PURPOSE: In vitro, in vivo, and epidemiologic studies support a role for selenium in reducing the risk of prostate cancer. Our group previously demonstrated a strong interaction between plasma selenium and the manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD2) gene and incident prostate cancer risk. We now hypothesized that SOD2 modifies the association between selenium level and risk of aggressive prostate cancer at...
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