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Article: Research from P. Truongminh et al has provided new information about prostate cancer.(Clinical report)
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- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- June 16, 2009
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"We investigated the relationship between the intake of fish and the risk of death from prostate cancer. Data were derived from a prospective cohort study in Japan," scientists in Kitakyushu, Japan report (see also Prostate Cancer).
"Fish consumption obtained from a baseline questionnaire was classified into the two categories of 'low intake' and 'high intake'. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals. Data for 5589 men aged 30-79 years were analyzed. A total of twenty-one prostate cancer deaths were observed during 75072 person-years of follow-up. Mean age at baseline study of these twenty-one ...
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