Human prostate cancer risk factors
Bostwick Laboratories · University of Virginia · +10 more institutions
Abstract
Prostate cancer has the highest prevalence of any nonskin cancer in the human body, with similar likelihood of neoplastic foci found within the prostates of men around the world regardless of diet, occupation, lifestyle, or other factors. Essentially all men with circulating androgens will develop microscopic prostate cancer if they live long enough. This review is a contemporary and comprehensive, literature-based analysis of the putative risk factors for human prostate cancer, and the results were presented at a multidisciplinary consensus conference held in Crystal City, Virginia, in the fall of 2002. The objectives were to evaluate known environmental factors and mechanisms of prostatic carcinogenesis and…
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Authors
11- DGDavid G. BostwickCorresponding
Bostwick Laboratories, University of Virginia
- HBHarry Burke
George Washington University
- DDDaniel Djakiew
Georgetown University
- SYSusan Y. Euling
National Center for Environmental Assessment (EPA), Environmental Protection Agency
- SHShuk‐Mei Ho
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Topics & keywords
- Prostate cancer
- Medicine
- Cancer
- Carcinogenesis
- Disease
- Epidemiology
- Prostate
- Risk factor