Prostate cancer’s prevalence and its increase with age tend to be consistent from country to country. A new study finds one major exception to this cancer’s high prevalence in older men: Arctic Inuit populations.
Assessments of cancer in Inuit groups in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland had hinted that prostate cancer’s incidence among the Inuit is unusually low.
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