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Prostate cancer, next to lung cancer, has the highest incidence of any form of cancer affecting men in this country. About 100,000 new cases are diagnosed each year, accounting for more than 17% of all cancer in males. It has been proposed that steroid hormones, chemical carcinogens, viral oncogenes, and immunodeficiency of the aging may play roles in the development of the cancer. However, there is no conclusive causal correlation between these factors and prostate cancer (1,2).
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Lin, MF. (1991). The Cellular Form of Human Prostatic Acid Phosphatase May Function as a Phosphotyrosyl Protein Phosphatase in Cells. In: Karr, J.P., Coffey, D.S., Smith, R.G., Tindall, D.J. (eds) Molecular and Cellular Biology of Prostate Cancer. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3704-5_30
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