Age-Dependent Associations Between Androgenetic Alopecia and Prostate Cancer Risk

February 2013 in “ Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention ”

David A. Muller, Graham G. Giles, Rodney Sinclair, John L. Hopper, Dallas R. English, Gianluca Severi

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TLDR Early balding at 40 increases prostate cancer risk.

This study investigated the association between androgenetic alopecia (AA) and prostate cancer risk in men. The results showed that vertex AA at age 40 years was associated with earlier age at onset of prostate cancer and increased cumulative probability of prostate cancer up to age 76 years. The study also found that a single, age-invariant estimate of relative risk is insufficient to describe the age-dependent association between AA and risk of prostate cancer.

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