Whilst doing some research I came across an interesting acne study carried out by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine. It proposes that there could be a link between severe acne and prostate cancer in men.
The main reason the study was carried out was to investigate existing research that showed that the Propionibacterium acnes (P.Acnes) bacteria was present in one third of prostate tissue samples taken from men with prostate cancer.
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