
Though the most aggressive prostate cancers are known to afflict bones too, the connection between bone characteristics, prostate cancer development, and its metastasis was still unclear.
“We reasoned there may be some difference between men who develop prostate cancer, especially metastatic disease, and those who don’t, and it was logical to see if there was something different about their bones,” study’s lead researcher, Stacy Loeb, a resident in the Department of Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine said.
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