Journal article
Hormone-related diseases and prostate cancer: an English national record linkage study
- Abstract:
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Insulin‐like growth factor‐I (IGF‐I) and testosterone may be related to prostate cancer risk. Acromegaly is associated with clinically high IGF‐I concentrations. Klinefelter's syndrome, testicular hypofunction and hypopituitarism are associated with clinically low testosterone concentrations. We aimed to investigate whether diagnosis with these conditions was associated with subsequent prostate cancer diagnosis and mortality. We used linked English national Hospital Episode Statistics and mor...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal of Cancer Journal website
- Volume:
- 147
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 803-810
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-18
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1097-0215
- ISSN:
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0020-7136
- Source identifiers:
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1073082
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- Language:
- England
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1073082
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uuid:ef182f5e-1057-4331-87ea-49b9a1376f44
- Local pid:
- pubs:1073082
- Deposit date:
- 2019-11-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Watts et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. This is an open access article published under CC BY 4.0.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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