Background Family history is a strong risk factor for prostate cancer. The aim of this study
was to investigate whether increased diagnostic activity is related to the incidence of …

Background: Familial prostate cancer risk estimates are inflated by clinically insignificant low-
risk cancer, diagnosed after prostate-specific antigen testing. We provide age-specific …

BACKGROUND: The thorough assessment of familial prostate cancer (PCa) risk is as
important as ever to provide a basis for clinical counselling and screening …

Objective: We conducted a case–control study of prostate cancer and familial risk of the
disease in Australia between 1994 and 1998, a period during which the incidence of …

BACKGROUND A positive family history is one of the strongest known risk factors for
prostate carcinoma in addition to age and race. In this article, the authors present age …

Abstract The Swedish Family-Cancer Database has been used for some 10 years in the
study of familial risks at all common sites. In the present paper we describe some of the main …

The incidence of prostate cancer has increased markedly during the past half century. We
used the data from the Swedish Cancer Registry to follow the incidence trends and age …

BACKGROUND Familial risks by proband status and age are useful for clinical counseling,
and they can be used to calculate population‐attributable fractions (PAFs), which show the …

BACKGROUND Although prostate carcinoma is not widely recognized as a familial cancer,
familial aggregation of this disease has been shown in some retrospective case–control …

Background The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between family
history of prostate cancer in a first-degree relative (FDR) and prostate cancer incidence and …