Sentences with phrase «develop aggressive forms of the disease»

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By age 80, more than 50 percent of men will develop prostate cancer but not all will have the aggressive, deadly form of the disease.

Frequent exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays for individuals under the age of 35 increases the risk of developing melanoma — the most aggressive and deadliest form of skin cancer — by 75 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Men with BRCA1 / 2 mutations who develop prostate cancer tend to develop these cancers at an earlier age than average and may develop more aggressive forms of the disease.

They found that when an MS - like disease was induced in mice genetically engineered to be deficient in Tob1, the mice had significantly earlier onset compared with wild - type mice, and developed a more aggressive form of the disease.

Carriers of germline mutations in BRCA2 have at least five times greater risk of prostate cancer and frequently develop a more aggressive form of the disease.

Low Cholesterol May Shrink Risk for High - Grade Prostate Cancer Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high - grade prostate cancer, an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study.

While men with the more aggressive form of the cancer make up about 5 % of the 180,000 to 200,000 cases of prostate cancer in the U.S. each year, and only 12 % will have these mutations, that population is still at considerably higher risk of developing advanced disease.

One reason may be that men in the study seemed to develop Alzheimer's at a younger age than women and had a more aggressive form of the disease.