Epidemiological data have not yet enabled physicians to look beyond age and race to
identify men at increased risk for prostate cancer. We conducted a hospital-based case …

Purpose: We evaluated the importance of positive family history, age at diagnosis and
history of vasectomy in predicting the risk for prostate cancer in the brothers of prostate …

A case‐control study was performed to estimate the relative risk of developing prostate
cancer for men with a positive family history. Extensive cancer pedigrees were obtained on …

In a study of the familial risk of prostate cancer 17 sets of 2 brothers with prostate cancer
were identified. A total of 34 first-degree relatives of these probands (sons and brothers, 55 …

In a population‐based case‐control study of prostate cancer conducted in Montreal, Toronto
and Vancouver between 1989 and 1993, a total of 640 newly incident cases and 639 aged …

Increased risk of prostate cancer in men with a family history of the disease has been
observed consistently in epidemiologic studies. However, most studies have been confined …

The authors examined the relation between family history of prostate cancer and the risk of
this cancer in a population-based case-control study conducted in Massachusetts between …

This chapter describes the application of the genetic epidemiological approach to the study
of human prostate cancer. We review the evidence for the familial clustering of prostate …

A family history of prostate cancer has been associated with prostate cancer risk in most
prior studies, and more limited data suggest that a family history of breast cancer may also …

Prostate cancer occurs more frequently in US blacks than whites. A population‐based case‐
control study which investigated the association with family history of cancer was carried out …