Early onset baldness and prostate cancer risk

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 325-328

  Demark Wahnefried, Wendy ^a   Schildkraut, Joellen M ^b   Thompson, Denis ^b   Lesko, Samuel M ^c   McIntyre, Lauren ^d   Schwingl, Pamela ^e   Paulson, David F ^a   Robertson, Cary N ^a   Anderson, E Everett ^a   Walther, Philip J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ALOPECIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034105692     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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