In ∼700 men without prostate cancer and two replication cohorts (N ∼ 900 and ∼9,000), we examined the properties of these SNPS as instrumental variables (IVs) for IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-3.
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-2 (IGFBP-2) on prostate cancer cell proliferation and its effects on the response to docetaxel.
In the IGF system, IGF-II and IGFBP-2 play a role in human prostate cancer progression and their increased expression is a possible candidate for a prognostic indicator in hormone-treated prostate cancer patients.