Relationship Between Male Pattern Baldness and the Risk of Aggressive Prostate Cancer: An Analysis of the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial

September 2014 in “ Journal of Clinical Oncology ”

Cindy Ke Zhou, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, Sean D. Cleary, Heather J. Hoffman, Paul H. Levine, Lisa W. Chu, Ann W. Hsing, Michael B. Cook

male pattern baldness frontal baldness vertex baldness aggressive prostate cancer pathophysiologic mechanisms baldness hair loss

Studysummary This study observed that frontal plus moderate vertex baldness at age 45 was associated with a higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer in a large cohort.

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research Age-Dependent Associations Between Androgenetic Alopecia and Prostate Cancer Risk

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research Androgens and Hair Loss: An In-Depth Analysis of Androgenetic Alopecia

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research Genome-Wide Scan and Fine-Mapping Linkage Study of Androgenetic Alopecia Reveals a Locus on Chromosome 3q26

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