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It was estimated that there were six million cases of cancer diagnosed world-wide in 1980, of which 235,000 were cancer of the prostate [1]. In perspective, this compares with over half-a-million of each of stomach, lung, breast and large bowel and nearly 300,000 cancers of the oesophagus.
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Boyle, P. (1994). The Evolution of an Epidemic of Unknown Origin. In: Denis, L. (eds) Prostate Cancer 2000. ESO Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79178-9_3
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