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 [-- prostate cancer --]

 
defined: Cancer of the prostate, a gland found only in men. The prostate surrounds the neck of the bladder and the urethra.

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Dr. Jeffrey Trent, chief of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, defines prostate cancer.

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