Inflammatory bowel disease induces inflammatory and pre-neoplastic changes in the prostate.
Anuj S DesaiVinay SagarBarbara LysyAdam B WeinerOliver S KoConor DriscollYara RodriguezRajita VatapalliKenji UnnoHuiying HanJason E CohenAmanda X VoMinh PhamMichael ShinKetan Jain-PosterJennifer RossElizabeth G MorencyTravis J MeyersJohn S WitteJennifer WuSarki A AbdulkadirShilajit D KunduPublished in: Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases (2021)
These data suggest chronic intestinal inflammation is associated with an inflammatory-rich, pro-tumorigenic prostatic phenotype which may explain how gut inflammation fosters prostate cancer development in men with IBD.