Prostate Cancer
Research Conducted by G.D. Batty and Co-Researchers Has Updated Our Knowledge about Prostate Cancer
Published in Cancer Weekly, April 12th, 2011
2011 APR 12 -- "The determinants of prostate cancer--aside from established but non-modifiable risk factors of increased age, black ethnicity, and a positive family history--are poorly understood. We examined the association of a series of baseline socioeconomic, behavioral, and metabolic characteristics with the risk of prostate cancer mortality in a 40-year follow-up of study members from the original Whitehall cohort study," investigators in London, United Kingdom report.
"During this period there were 578 prostate cancer deaths in 17,934 men. After adjustment for a series of baseline covariates, results from proportional hazards regression analyses...
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