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 …

Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

Cyclin D–CDK4 kinase destabilizes PD-L1 via cullin 3–SPOP to control cancer immune surveillance

J Zhang, X Bu, H Wang, Y Zhu, Y Geng, NT Nihira… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Treatments that target immune checkpoints, such as the one mediated by programmed cell
death protein 1 (PD-1) and its ligand PD-L1, have been approved for treating human …

Blood-based cancer biomarkers in liquid biopsy: a promising non-invasive alternative to tissue biopsy

J Marrugo-Ramírez, M Mir, J Samitier - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the greatest threats facing our society, being the second leading cause of
death globally. Currents strategies for cancer diagnosis consist of the extraction of a solid …

Prostate cancer screening in men aged 50–69 years (STHLM3): a prospective population-based diagnostic study

H Grönberg, J Adolfsson, M Aly, T Nordström… - The lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is used to screen for prostate cancer
but has a high false-positive rate that translates into unnecessary prostate biopsies and …

Innate immune activity conditions the effect of regulatory variants upon monocyte gene expression

BP Fairfax, P Humburg, S Makino, V Naranbhai… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction Many genetic variants associated with common disease susceptibility occur
close to immune-related genes in noncoding DNA, suggestive of a regulatory function. The …

Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

RA Eeles, AAA Olama, S Benlloch, EJ Saunders… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries. To
identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a …

Circulating tumor DNA as biomarkers for cancer detection

X Han, J Wang, Y Sun - Genomics, Proteomics and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Detection of circulating tumor DNAs (ctDNAs) in cancer patients is an important component
of cancer precision medicine ctDNAs. Compared to the traditional physical and biochemical …

The genetic epidemiology of prostate cancer and its clinical implications

R Eeles, C Goh, E Castro, E Bancroft, M Guy… - Nature reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Worldwide, familial and epidemiological studies have generated considerable evidence of
an inherited component to prostate cancer. Indeed, rare highly penetrant genetic mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Prostate cancer in Asia: a collaborative report

R Chen, S Ren, MK Yiu, NC Fai, WS Cheng… - Asian Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The incidence of prostate cancer (PCa) within Asian population used to be much lower than
in the Western population; however, in recent years the incidence and mortality rate of PCa …