Serendipitous finding leads scientists to propose mechanism to explain benign prostatic hyperplasia

Friday, September 2, 2016 - 05:01 in Health & Medicine

Benign prostatic hyperplasia affects about half of men between 51 and 60 years of age, and nine out of 10 men older than 80. How BPH happens, however, is still open for debate. A new report outlines a new mechanism that can explain the development of BPH and suggest strategies to improve the response to androgen-targeting therapies.

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