Male Pattern Baldness and Prostate Cancer Risk in a Population-Based Case-Control Study

    March 2010 in “ Cancer epidemiology ”
    Jonathan L. Wright, Stephanie T. Page, Daniel W. Lin, Janet L. Stanford
    Studysummary This study found that early-onset male pattern baldness was associated with a reduced relative risk of prostate cancer.
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