Prostate cancer in young men: An important clinical entity

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 317-323

  Salinas, Claudia A ^a   Tsodikov, Alex ^b   Ishak Howard, Miriam ^a   Cooney, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MORBIDITY; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGE; BLOOD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETICS; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902545930     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2014.91     Document Type: Review

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