Men with low serum cholesterol have a lower risk of high-grade prostate cancer in the placebo arm of the prostate cancer prevention trial.

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Published in Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev on November 03, 2009

Authors

Elizabeth A Platz1, Cathee Till, Phyllis J Goodman, Howard L Parnes, William D Figg, Demetrius Albanes, Marian L Neuhouser, Eric A Klein, Ian M Thompson, Alan R Kristal

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. eplatz@jhsph.edu

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