Hereditary predisposition to prostate cancer: from genetics to clinical implications

A Brandão, P Paulo, MR Teixeira - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Prostate cancer (PrCa) ranks among the top five cancers for both incidence and mortality
worldwide. A significant proportion of PrCa susceptibility has been attributed to inherited …

Implementation of germline testing for prostate cancer: Philadelphia Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference 2019

VN Giri, KE Knudsen, WK Kelly, HH Cheng… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Germline testing (GT) is a central feature of prostate cancer (PCA) treatment,
management, and hereditary cancer assessment. Critical needs include optimized …

Disparities in prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates: Solvable or not?

S Badal, W Aiken, B Morrison, H Valentine… - The …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer (PCa) is recognized as a disease possessing not only great variation in its
geographic and racial distribution but also tremendous variation in its potential to cause …

Integrative comparison of the genomic and transcriptomic landscape between prostate cancer patients of predominantly African or European genetic ancestry

J Yuan, KH Kensler, Z Hu, Y Zhang, T Zhang… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Men of predominantly African Ancestry (AA) have higher prostate cancer (CaP) incidence
and worse survival than men of predominantly European Ancestry (EA). While …

Identification of novel breast cancer susceptibility loci in meta-analyses conducted among Asian and European descendants

X Shu, J Long, Q Cai, SS Kweon, JY Choi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Known risk variants explain only a small proportion of breast cancer heritability, particularly
in Asian women. To search for additional genetic susceptibility loci for breast cancer, here …

An integrative multi-omics analysis to identify candidate DNA methylation biomarkers related to prostate cancer risk

L Wu, Y Yang, X Guo, XO Shu, Q Cai, X Shu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
It remains elusive whether some of the associations identified in genome-wide association
studies of prostate cancer (PrCa) may be due to regulatory effects of genetic variants on …

An epigenome-wide association study of sex-specific chronological ageing

DL McCartney, F Zhang, RF Hillary, Q Zhang… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Advanced age is associated with cognitive and physical decline and is a major
risk factor for a multitude of disorders. There is also a gap in life expectancy between males …

[HTML][HTML] Active monitoring, radical prostatectomy and radical radiotherapy in PSA-detected clinically localised prostate cancer: the ProtecT three-arm RCT.

FC Hamdy, JL Donovan, JA Lane… - Health Technology …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the UK. Prostate-
specific antigen testing followed by biopsy leads to overdetection, overtreatment as well as …

Recommandations françaises du Comité de cancérologie de l'AFU–actualisation 2020–2022: cancer de la prostate

F Rozet, P Mongiat-Artus, C Hennequin, JB Beauval… - Progrès en Urologie, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective.-The purpose of the guidelines national committee ccAFU was to propose updated
french guidelines for prostate cancer. Methods.-A Medline search was achieved between …

Using what we already have: uncovering new drug repurposing strategies in existing omics data

JM Pulley, JP Rhoads, RN Jerome… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The promise of drug repurposing is to accelerate the translation of knowledge to treatment of
human disease, bypassing common challenges associated with drug development to be …