Health News and Information - News Medical - Prostate Cancer - Jun 28, 2018 Edition

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June 28, 2018     Prostate Cancer     The latest prostate cancer news from News Medical

Prostate Cancer Epidemiology Worldwide   Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally. It only affects men, and the risk of developing prostate cancer increases with age.

Research identifies new genetic variations that could indicate higher prostate cancer risk   As the result of a six-year long research process, Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, a cancer epidemiology researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and an international team of more than 100 colleagues have identified 63 new genetic variations that could indicate higher risk of prostate cancer in men of European descent.         Prostate Cancer and Exercise   Exercise has been found to be very beneficial both in reducing the risk of and alleviating prostate cancer during therapy.

New DNA test identifies men at highest risk of prostate cancer   A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer.       Prostate Cancer Cell Dormancy and Activation   Tumor cells can remain dormant for many months, then become active and move to another area of the body through a process called metastasis.       Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Prostate Cancer   Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are variations in a genome’s base pair in a DNA sequence, and occur in approximately 1 out of 800 base pairs. These occur when a single nucleotide is different from the norm, and it is termed as polymorphism when it occurs in the DNA of at least 1% of the population.       Scientists identify new subtype of prostate cancer   Researchers led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have identified a new subtype of prostate cancer that occurs in about 7 percent of patients with advanced disease.

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