Genetic Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment: Common Variants In 9 Genomic Regions Are Ass

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Apart from cutaneous malignancies, prostate cancer (CaP) still remains the most common cancer in men. However, the pathophysiology underlying the disease remains poorly understood and no definite behavioral or environmental risk factors have been identified. Genetics is an important, and perhaps the strongest, contributing factor to the development and progression of the disease. In fact, it has been shown that the relative risk of developing CaP is over two-fold higher in first degree relatives of affected men1...


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