Although being tall does not appear to influence the overall risk of prostate cancer, it may have a role in certain manifestations of the disease, US and German researchers have found.
"We found that tallness is associated with increased risk for younger onset aggressive prostate cancer," study chief Dr. Jiyoung Ahn, of New York University School of Medicine, New York, told Reuters Health.
Ahn and colleagues came to this conclusion after analyzing data from a cancer screening study involving 34,268 men.
