Prostate Cancer: Is It a Battle Lost to Age?

Age is often considered an important non-modifiable risk factor for a number of diseases, including prostate cancer. Some prominent risk factors of prostate cancer include familial history, ethnicity and age. In this review, various genetic and physiological characteristics affected due to advancing...

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Autores principales: Vaidyanathan, Venkatesh, Karunasinghe, Nishi, Jabed, Anower, Pallati, Radha, Kao, Chi Hsiu-Juei, Wang, Alice, Marlow, Gareth, Ferguson, Lynnette R.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6371152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31022820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1040027
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author Vaidyanathan, Venkatesh
Karunasinghe, Nishi
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Pallati, Radha
Kao, Chi Hsiu-Juei
Wang, Alice
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description Age is often considered an important non-modifiable risk factor for a number of diseases, including prostate cancer. Some prominent risk factors of prostate cancer include familial history, ethnicity and age. In this review, various genetic and physiological characteristics affected due to advancing age will be analysed and correlated with their direct effect on prostate cancer.
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spelling pubmed-63711522019-03-07 Prostate Cancer: Is It a Battle Lost to Age? Vaidyanathan, Venkatesh Karunasinghe, Nishi Jabed, Anower Pallati, Radha Kao, Chi Hsiu-Juei Wang, Alice Marlow, Gareth Ferguson, Lynnette R. Geriatrics (Basel) Review Age is often considered an important non-modifiable risk factor for a number of diseases, including prostate cancer. Some prominent risk factors of prostate cancer include familial history, ethnicity and age. In this review, various genetic and physiological characteristics affected due to advancing age will be analysed and correlated with their direct effect on prostate cancer. MDPI 2016-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6371152/ /pubmed/31022820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1040027 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ferguson, Lynnette R.
Prostate Cancer: Is It a Battle Lost to Age?
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