risk factors While there's no way to pinpoint the exact causes of prostate cancer, there are many things that increase your risk. Some people are more likely to get prostate cancer than others based on one or more gene variants they were born with. Lifestyle and other factors also play ...
Known risk factors for the disease include age, race, and geographical location. Researchers are also looking into potential connections to environmental exposures to pesticides and herbicides, diet, vitamin D deficiency, and even sexual activity. A family history of prostate cancer and certain genetic...
Prostate cancer is associated with an increased risk of bone-related complications, which is made worse by some of the drugs used to manage the cancer. The resulting fractures and spinal cord compression have a significant impact on patients' physical, functional and emotional wellbeing, so risks...
Age of the patient is the most important risk factor for development of prostate cancer. The risk of prostate cancer considerably increases with age after 50 years of age. Ethnicity and family history are other widely accepted risk factors for prostate cancer development. African American men have ...
About 80% of cases are in men over 65, and less than 1% of cases are in men under 50. African American men and those with a family history of prostate cancer are more likely to get it. Doctors don’t know what causes prostate cancer, but diet contributes to the risk. Men who eat...
Whether the diagnosis of prostate cancer is a contributory psychological stress that causes excess risk of suicide among affected men remains controversial. We performed a meta-analysis of previous studies to investigate suicide incidence and associated risk factors among men diagnosed with prostate cancer...
Prostate cancer is a major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality. Intra-prostatic inflammation is a risk factor for prostate carcinogenesis, with diet, chemical injury and an altered microbiome being causally implicated. Intra-prostatic inflammatory cell recruitment and expansion can ultimately promote ...
To investigate the risk factors of prostate cancer, a hospital_based 1:1 matched case-control study was conducted for 137 patients with prostate cancer and their matched controls in Wuhan. Univariate analysis results showed that man and wife living apart, liver diseases, the widowed or divorced,...
The PEO method (Table 1) was used to identify relevant elements of the research question of “What are the risk factors and screening uptake of patients with prostate cancer?” To answer the review question, the following objectives were identified: Table 1. PEO framework. What risk factors ...
About 80% of cases are in men over 65, and less than 1% of cases are in men under 50. African American men and those with a family history of prostate cancer are more likely to get it. Doctors don’t know what causes prostate cancer, but diet contributes to the risk. Men who eat...