Study reveals new risk factor for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, accounting for a quarter of all new cases of cancer diagnosed in men. More than 34,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. The disease causes around 10,000 deaths a year and is the second most common cause of cancer death in UK men after lung cancer.
 
An international team of researchers, funded by Cancer Research UK,concluded that the greater the levels of a protein called Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), the greater the risk of prostate cancer, an Oxford University-led study has found.
 
The results are published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.