Advances in prostate cancer chemoprevention and treatment.(REPORT)(Report)

From: Life Extension | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

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Prostate cancer kills 31,000 men in the US each year. Over 220,000 are diagnosed with the disease each year--the equivalent of a new diagnosis every 2.6 minutes. A man's lifetime chance of developing this cancer is about one in six. At this writing, prostate cancer is present in more than 9 million American men.

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