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Leukocyte telomere length is associated with aggressive prostate cancer in localized prostate cancer patients.
EBioMedicine - 1 Feb 2020
Xu Junfeng, Chang Wen-Shin, Tsai Chia-Wen, Bau Da-Tian, Xu Yifan, Davis John W, Thompson Timothy C, Logothetis Christopher J, Gu Jian
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BACKGROUND: Telomeres play important roles in cancer initiation and progression. The aim of this study is to investigate whether leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with aggressive prostate cancer (PCa). METHODS: We measured relative LTL in a cohort of 1,889 white PCa patients who were treated and followed up at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and assessed its associations with...
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