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Genetic predisposition to prostate cancer: Update and future perspectives.
Urologic oncology - 1 Feb 2015
Demichelis Francesca, Stanford Janet L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Prostate cancer is the second most frequent cancer in men worldwide and kills over 250,000 men worldwide every year. Prostate cancer is a heterogeneous disease at the clinical and the molecular level. The Scandinavian Twin Registry Study demonstrated that in contrast to most malignancies where environment was the overriding influence, heritable factors account for more than fifty percent of prostate...
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