Androgenetic Alopecia at Various Ages and Prostate Cancer Risk in an Equal Access Multiethnic Case Control Series of Veterans

    April 2012 in “ The Journal of Urology ”
    Jean-Alfred Thomas, Jodi Antonelli, Lionel L. Bañez … Stephen J. Freedland
    Studysummary This case-control study found that men with earlier onset androgenetic alopecia, particularly frontal balding, may have an increased risk of prostate cancer in a multiethnic veterans cohort.
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