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Compared
to men with no hair loss, those with vertex baldness (balding
at the crown of the head) appear to be at significantly greater
risk of prostate cancer, according to Australian researchers.
Reporting
in the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention,
the researchers said a study of almost 3,000 men under 70
years of age found that those with vertex baldness had a 50
percent greater risk of prostate cancer than those with no
balding.
The researchers
said "no associations were found between prostate cancer
and frontal baldness or when frontal baldness was present
concurrently with vertex baldness."
They said
the greatest risk was in men 60-to-69 years of age with vertex
baldness, who had almost three times the risk of high-grade
prostate cancer.
The researchers
concluded that the evident link between the pattern of vertex
baldness and prostate cancer "points to shared androgen
pathways that are worthy of additional investigation."
Source:
Prostate Cancer
Week of June 9, 2002
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