Hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) is a genetically heterogeneous disease, complicating
efforts to map and clone susceptibility loci. We have used stratification of a large dataset of …

Methods We compared 7 pairs (14 patients) of familial prostate cancer patients (Group F)
with those of 1741 prostate cancer patients diagnosed in around Gunma Prefecture between …

Genetic factors and their inter-actions with environmental conditions and internal
microenvironment influence the prostate cancer (PC) development, so that gene expression …

The article focuses on the things that urologists must know about hereditary predisposition to
prostate cancer. Hereditary factors play a greater role in the etiology of prostate cancer than …

Genetic factors may be used not only to assess risk of prostate cancer development but also
to evaluate prostate cancer outcomes including clinical prognosis, treatment methods, and …

OBJECTIVE: To review current literature on the hereditary aspects of prostate cancer and to
evaluate the importance of family history in history taking and screening for prostate cancer …

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men worldwide and is
likely to be caused by a number of genes with different modes of inheritance, population …

Prostate cancer is a significant public health problem. There are 10 180 cases per year in
England and Wales, and 8098 deaths [1]. In the US, it is the most common malignancy and …

Purpose To report on the aggressiveness of sporadic versus familial prostate cancer.
Patients and Methods The study sample consisted of 4,112 stage T1-3 prostate cancer …

Prostate cancer is the most common noncutaneous malignancy and the second leading
cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the United States; in 2002, approx 189,000 …