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Young-age prostate cancer.
Although prostate cancer is a disease of the elderly, its diagnosis is not uncommonly made in men younger than 55 years. Both ethnic, familial and genetic factors play a role in the early onset of prostate cancer, but the biology, particularly of low-grade prostate cancers detected at young age is not well understood. Autopsy studies have shown a high prevalence of Gleason score 6 prostate canc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0021-9746,1472-4146
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2015-202993