Larger men have larger prostates: Detection bias in epidemiologic studies of obesity and prostate cancer risk

BACKGROUND: Obesity is associated with risk of aggressive prostate cancer (PCa), but not with over-all PCa risk. However, obese men have larger prostates which may lower biopsy accuracy and cause a systematic bias towards the null in epidemiologic studies of over-all risk. METHODS: Within a cohort o...

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Publicado no:Prostate
Main Authors: Rundle, Andrew, Wang, Yun, Sadasivan, Sudha, Chitale, Dhananjay A., Gupta, Nilesh S., Tang, Deliang, Rybicki, Benjamin A.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: 2017
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460373/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28349547
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pros.23350
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