date:Apr 02, 2013
ecia in this case baldness may indicate a high risk for prostate cancer.
Steve Freedland from Duke Prostate Center, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC and colleagues ocnducted the case-control study of 708 men, 167 with prostate cancer and 312 healthy and found early on-set baldness was significantly associated with increased risk of prostate cancer.
Overall, balding was associated with more than twofold increase in high grade prostate cancer. The increase in