Prostate Cancer: Is It a Battle Lost to Age?

Autor:	Lynnette R. Ferguson, Venkatesh Vaidyanathan, Alice Wang, Chi Hsiu-Juei Kao, Radha Pallati, Nishi Karunasinghe, Gareth Marlow, Anower Jabed
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	0301 basic medicine Oncology Aging medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Battle media_common.quotation_subject Single-nucleotide polymorphism Review 03 medical and health sciences Prostate cancer 0302 clinical medicine single nucleotide polymorphism Internal medicine microRNA medicine Epigenetics Risk factor CRISPR/Cas9 miRNA media_common Gynecology epigenetics business.industry prostate cancer medicine.disease 030104 developmental biology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Familial history Geriatrics and Gerontology business Gerontology
Zdroj:	Geriatrics
ISSN:	2308-3417
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c569c2a79c41023df49c57cc5fc0e76a https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics1040027 Zobrazit plný text záznamu