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.

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