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Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics: 2nd Edition
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Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 548

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Steven Narod

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1. Women’s College Research Institute, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2, Canada
2. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada
3. Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
Interests: breast cancer; ovarian cancer; BRCA1; BRCA2; cancer prevention; screening
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Prostate cancer continues to be a leading worldwide cause of male cancer morbidity and mortality. We are pleased to invite you to contribute an article to our Special Issue within the journal Cancers entitled “Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics”.

We feel that this Special Issue is a good fit for this journal as Cancers has a demonstrated commitment to the dissemination of research which explores a broad range of methods and foci related to underlying malignancy risk, and has a high Impact Factor within our field. This Special Issue aims at exploring recent developments specifically in the fields of genetics and epidemiology as they relate to prostate cancer mortality.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • The contribution of aging to the risk of prostate cancer mortality;
  • Population-level work on novel biomarkers for prostate cancer risk and progression;
  • Lifestyle factors that may impact on prostate cancer risk and progression;
  • Environmental and occupational factors that impact on prostate cancer risk and progression;
  • The contribution of specific genetic anomalies to the risk of prostate cancer mortality;
  • Clinical efforts to increase the uptake of genetic testing in patient populations;
  • Highlights from recent meetings regarding prostate cancer genetic risk.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Steven Narod
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • prostate cancer
  • epidemiology
  • clinical genetics
  • aging
  • population-level databases

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JC Polyomavirus in Prostate Cancer—Friend or Foe?
by Jacek Kiś, Dominika Sikora, Mirosław J. Jarosz and Małgorzata Polz-Dacewicz
Cancers 2025, 17(10), 1725; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17101725 - 21 May 2025
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Background/Objectives: Recently, many researchers have evaluated various viruses, including polyomaviruses (JCV, BKV) and EBV, as potential factors playing a role in the development and/or progression of prostate cancer (PCa), one of the most common cancers in men. Therefore, we aimed to assess [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Recently, many researchers have evaluated various viruses, including polyomaviruses (JCV, BKV) and EBV, as potential factors playing a role in the development and/or progression of prostate cancer (PCa), one of the most common cancers in men. Therefore, we aimed to assess the frequency of the JCPyV DNA in tissue collected from PCa patients. Methods: We detected the presence of viral DNA (PCR) in 49.6% of clinical samples, including 71.9% with single EBV infection and 28.1% with EBV/JCV co-infection. We did not detect BKV or a single JCV infection. Therefore, we compared patients with EBV mono-infection with EBV/JCV co-infected patients in the context of risk group, Gleason score, and TNM classification. Results: Our results showed differences in clinicopathological features between single EBV infection and EBV/JCV co-infection. In the group of patients with single EBV infection, most patients were classified as medium/high risk, while in the group with EBV/JCV co-infection, most patients were classified as low risk. Conclusions: Among patients with single EBV infection, a more advanced stage of cancer was observed than in EBV/JCV co-infection. Moreover, the level of anti-EBVCA and anti-EBNA antibodies as well as EBV load was higher in the case of single infection compared to EBV/JCV co-infection. Higher antibody levels were detected in more advanced tumor stages in single EBV infection. Does JCV only “reside” in prostate cells or is it a co-factor in EBV infection? In light of these studies, there is a need to clarify the role of JCV virus in the development and/or progression of prostate cancer. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Prostate Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics: 2nd Edition)
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