According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Disease Cancer of the prostate is the most common form of cancer in men of all races in the United States and occurs at a rate of about 128 per 100,000 people in risk. This is almost twice the rate of lung cancer in men and three times the rate of colon cancer in men.
Although black men tend to have slightly higher incident cases, risk factors and indicators for prostate cancer also remained elusive. A new study suggests that hair loss can actually be a predictor of an aggressive form of prostate cancer factor. The report describes the study was published in Sept. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Michael Koch, an epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, and colleagues examined whether men in the prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial showed a correlation between hair loss and male prostate -Krebs, both conditions "seem to share common pathophysiological mechanisms," the report said.
Cook and his colleagues included just over 39,000 men in the PLCO cohort the age of 55 and 74 who remembered their hair loss pattern between. The men had no cancer diagnosis when they enrolled, and his hair had memory loss for 45th birthday. About 18 percent of men with hair loss remembered 45 More than 1,100 people were eventually diagnosed with prostate cancer, and nearly 600 of these cases involved aggressive prostate cancer.
Compared with no hair loss, hair loss in the front and crown moderate hair loss with an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer risk later in life. The risk for men with hair loss in 45 developing aggressive prostate cancer is about 39 percent higher than for men with little or no balding. If you any kind of prostate cancer in general or only non-aggressive prostate cancer, but these differences were negligible.
"It is conceivable that in the future, hair loss may play a small role in the assessment of risk of prostate cancer and may contribute to the discussions between doctors and patients about screening for prostate cancer," Cook said.
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