Epidemiology and genomics of prostate cancer in Asian men

Y Zhu, M Mo, Y Wei, J Wu, J Pan, SJ Freedland… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is a global health problem, but incidence varies considerably across
different continents. Asia is traditionally considered a low-incidence area, but the incidence …

Epidemiology of prostate cancer in Asian countries

T Kimura, S Egawa - International journal of urology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The incidence of prostate cancer has been increasing worldwide in recent years. The
GLOBOCAN project showed that prostate cancer was the second most frequently diagnosed …

The role of HOX transcription factors in cancer predisposition and progression

B Li, Q Huang, GH Wei - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Homeobox (HOX) transcription factors, encoded by a subset of homeodomain superfamily
genes, play pivotal roles in many aspects of cellular physiology, embryonic development …

[HTML][HTML] Racial differences in prostate cancer characteristics and cancer-specific mortality: an overview

N Hinata, M Fujisawa - The world journal of men's health, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Racial differences of prostate cancer incidence and mortality among Asian, Black, and
Caucasian men have been known, however, comprehensive update of this topic is not yet …

[HTML][HTML] Human HOX gene disorders

SC Quinonez, JW Innis - Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2014 - Elsevier
The Hox genes are an evolutionarily conserved family of genes, which encode a class of
important transcription factors that function in numerous developmental processes …

HOX genes function in Breast Cancer development

SA de Bessa Garcia, M Araújo, T Pereira… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Breast cancer develops in the mammary glands during mammalian adulthood and is
considered the second most common type of human carcinoma and the most incident and …

Germline pathogenic variants in 7636 Japanese patients with prostate cancer and 12 366 controls

Y Momozawa, Y Iwasaki, M Hirata, X Liu… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Genetic testing has been conducted in patients with prostate cancer (PCa)
using multigene panels, but no centralized guidelines for genetic testing exist. To overcome …

Health inequity drives disease biology to create disparities in prostate cancer outcomes

WG Nelson, OW Brawley, WB Isaacs… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Prostate cancer exerts a greater toll on African American men than on White men of
European descent (hereafter referred to as European American men): the disparity in …

Prognostic significance of pathogenic variants in BRCA1, BRCA2, ATM and PALB2 genes in men undergoing hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer

H Kimura, K Mizuno, M Shiota, S Narita… - British journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Background The prognostic significance of germline variants in homologous recombination
repair genes in advanced prostate cancer (PCa), especially with regard to hormonal …

Shaping chromatin states in prostate cancer by pioneer transcription factors

W Hankey, Z Chen, Q Wang - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
The androgen receptor (AR) is a critical therapeutic target in prostate cancer that responds
to antagonists in primary disease, but inevitably becomes reactivated, signaling onset of the …