Appendectomy and Risk of Prostate Cancer in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

Yiwen Zhang Xiaotong Feng Edward L Giovannucci

Published in: Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology (2024)

We showed that appendectomy was not associated with overall or advanced prostate cancer after adjusting for multiple risk factors in a large population of men with 30 years of follow-up.

Keyphrases

prostate cancer
radical prostatectomy
risk factors
middle aged