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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prostate. 2009 Jan 1;69(1):41–48. doi: 10.1002/pros.20850

Table 1. Urinary levels of estrogen compounds in men with prostate cancer and healthy men*.

No. Compound Prostate Cancer (n=14) Control (n=125) p-value**
pmol/ml
Median Min-Max Median Min-Max
1 Androstenedione 9.0 3.3-21.8 8.3 1.9-24.7
2 Testosterone 2.5 0.9-5.8 2.0 0.1-9.2
3 E1-sulfate 1.4 0.2-14.3 1.4 0.0-17.8
4 E2 12.8 4.9-36.2 11.2 0.0-48.3
5 E1
6 2-OHE2 8.1 3.2-86.1 9.4 1.0-116
7 2-OHE1
8 4-OHE2 6.1 0.4-14.3 7.1 0.0-120.
9 4-OHE1
10 16α-OHE2 106 38-549 114 7-954
11 16α-OHE1
12 2-OCH3E2 35.0 4.8-71.7 23.3 0.6-290
13 2-OCH3E1
14 4-OCH3E2 13.7 4.1-27.8 12.3 1.1-511
15 4-OCH3E1
16 2-OH-OCH3E2
17 2-OH-OCH3E1
18 2-OHE2-1-SG 7.2 1.7-12.7 5.6 1.0-27.4
19 2-OHE2-4-SG
20 2-OHE1-1-SG
21 2-OHE1-4-SG
22 2-OHE2-1+4-Cys
23 2-OHE1-1-Cys
24 2-OHE1-4-Cys
25 2-OHE2-1-NAcCys
26 2-OHE2-4-NAcCys
27 2-OHE1-1-NAcCys
28 2-OHE1-4-NAcCys
29 4-OHE2-2-SG 4-OHE2-2-Cys 3.2 0.8-6.5 3.6 0.4-18.7
30 4-OHE1-2-SG
31 4-OHE2-2-Cys
32 4-OHE1-2-Cys
33 4-OHE2-2-NAcCys
34 4-OHE1-2-NAcCys
35 4-OHE2-1-N7Gua 0.7 0.4-1.6 0.3 0.0-2.9 0.0004
36 4-OHE1-1-N7Gua
37 4-OHE2-1-N3Ade 0.4 0.1-3.1 0.2 0.0-3.0 0.056
38 4-OHE1-1-N3Ade
39 2-OHE2-6-N3Ade 0.2 0.0-1.8 0.0 0.0-1.8 0.0014
40 2-OHE1-6-N3Ade
*

The values reported in this table are the sum of the E1 and E2 forms of each metabolite [for example, 2-OHE1(E2)], the sum of the thiol conjugates of 2-OHE1(E2), the sum of the thiol conjugates of 4-OHE1(E2), and the sum of the E1 and E2 forms of each depurinating DNA adduct.

**

p-value for comparing control vs Pca by using the Mann-Whitney test.