Newly identified prostate cell type may help explain why enlarged prostate develops in one region of gland

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a distinct type of prostate cell that may help solve the long-standing mystery of why benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)—a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate that commonly affects men as they age—develops almost exclusively in one region of the prostate.

Read it at Medical Xpress ↗

← Front page