3 citations,
March 2018 in “BMC Cancer” Baldness, especially at the front, may lower the risk of testicular cancer by 31%, but its link to prostate cancer is unclear.
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1 citations,
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121 citations,
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13 citations,
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13 citations,
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12 citations,
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