Prostate Cancer

Findings in prostate cancer reported from Colorado State University

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 5th, 2010

According to recent research from the United States, "Prospective epidemiologic studies conducted in Western populations support an association between current smoking and aggressive subtypes of prostate cancer. In Singapore, where prostate-specific antigen is not used for population-wide screening, prostate cancer incidence has tripled within the past two decades."

"Using Cox regression methods, we examined the relationship between smoking and prostate cancer established between 1993 and 1998 in a cohort of 27,293 Singapore Chinese men. As of December 2006, 250 incident prostate cancer cases were diagnosed. In our cohort, 42.2% reported never smoking cigarettes, 15.7%...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-01-05)

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