Prostate Cancer: Is It a Battle Lost to Age?

Vaidyanathan, Venkatesh, Karunasinghe, Nishi, Jabed, Anower, Pallati, Radha, Kao, Chi, Wang, Alice, Marlow, Gareth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7608-9086 and Ferguson, Lynnette 2016. Prostate Cancer: Is It a Battle Lost to Age? Geriatrics 1 (4) , 27. 10.3390/geriatrics1040027

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Abstract

Age is often considered an important non-modifiable risk factor for a number of diseases, including prostate cancer. Some prominent risk factors of prostate cancer include familial history, ethnicity and age. In this review, various genetic and physiological characteristics affected due to advancing age will be analysed and correlated with their direct effect on prostate cancer.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Uncontrolled Keywords:	prostate cancer; aging; single nucleotide polymorphism; epigenetics; miRNA; CRISPR/Cas9
Publisher:	MDPI Publishing
ISSN:	2308-3417
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 April 2017
Date of Acceptance:	31 October 2016
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 20:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/99952

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