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Acta medica Croatica : Časopis Akademije medicinskih znanosti Hrvatske, Vol. 69 No. 5, 2015.

Review article

ETIOLOGY OF PROSTATE CANCER

JOSIP GALIĆ ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, School of Medicine, Osijek, Croatia
ŽELJKO VIDAS ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University, School of Medicine, Osijek, Croatia
IVAN SAVIĆ ; Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
DAMIR ŠTAJCAR ; Polyclinic Sveti Nikola, Varaždin, Croatia
ZORAN RAJKOVIĆ ; Zabok General Hospital, Zabok, Croatia
NUHI ARSLANI ; Maribor University Hospital, Maribor, Slovenia
LUKA VUČEMILO ; Merkur University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
JOSIP BUBNJAR ; Zabok General Hospital, Zabok, Croatia
DINO PAPEŠ ; Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Prostate cancer is now recognized as one of the most important medical problems in male population. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression by promoter methylation and histone acetylation, proinfl ammatory enzyme cyclooxygenase-2 and somatic mutations in a variety of genes with diverse biological functions has been implicated in prostate cancer
development and progression.

Keywords

prostate gland; cancer; etiology; epigenesis

Hrčak ID:

154197

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154197

Publication date:

13.3.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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