Findings from the California Collaborative Prostate Cancer Study

The following articles feature peer-reviewed findings from the California Collaborative Prostate Cancer Study and related studies. Cancer Prevention Institute of California Senior Research Scientist Esther John, Ph.D., (shown below, right), directs this project at CPIC.

Prostate cancer in African-American men and polymorphisms in the calcium-sensing receptor (2010)

Identification of seven new prostate cancer susceptibility loci through a genome-wide association study (2009)

Multiple novel prostate cancer predisposition loci confirmed by an international study: the PRACTICAL Consortium (2008)

Multiple regions within 8q24 independently affect risk for prostate cancer (2007)

Admixture mapping identifies 8q24 as a prostate cancer risk locus in African American men (2006)

Sun exposure, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and risk of advanced prostate cancer (2005)

Obesity before age 30 and risk of advanced prostate cancer (2005)