The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Introduction

Updated statistics with estimated new cases and deaths for 2008 (cited American Cancer Society as reference 1).

Prostate Cancer Susceptibility Loci

Added text about linkage analysis (studies that look for evidence that known genetic markers are inherited along with disease traits), the statistical data that chromosmal regions near a marker harbor a disease susceptibility gene, and the four factors that affect the statistical power of linkage analysis.

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