Prostate cancer in your genes? You might have a higher risk of dying early

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International researchers have found a link between men who have a genetic risk for prostate cancer and dying early from the disease. They looked at data from close to 20,000 men and say those with a higher genetic risk were three times more likely to die a prostate cancer-related death. The team adds that just over one-third of these deaths were estimated to have been preventable through factors related to healthy lifestyle changes.

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Organisation/s: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Funder: This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (grant Nos. U01 CA167552 and P01 CA228696), the Prostate Cancer Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Swedish Cancer Society, the Dr P Håkansson Foundation, the Swedish Society for Medical Research, and a Lund University Infrastructure grant. Genotyping for MDCS was financed and performed by the Regeneron Genetics Center.

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