Bone mineral content and prostate cancer risk
January 28th, 2010 Posted in prostate cancer risksA recent study aimed to determine whether there might be differences in bone mineral content between men who develop life-threatening prostate cancer and those who do not, as bone is a common site of prostate cancer metastases.
According to study findings, the distribution of bone mineral content was significantly different between men who did and did not develop prostate cancer, over an extended follow-up. Specifically, bone mineral content appeared to decline to a greater extent with age among healthy controls than in men with prostate cancer, especially high-risk disease. The biology underlying the lesser decline in bone mineral content among men with prostate cancer remains unclear, but suggests that host factors in the bony milieu might be associated with prostate cancer development and progression.