Prostate Cancer

Weather Increases Risk of Prostate Cancer

CAUSE re-discovered prostate cancer. A new study says that extreme weather and climate in a city of its citizens are at high risk for prostate cancer. Research conducted at Idaho State University, the United States showed no relationship between drought, cold weather with increased risk of prostate cancer. "We found that the cold weather and low rainfall is highly correlated with prostate cancer," researcher Sophie St-Hilaire of Idaho State University, USA as quoted Healthday.com.

He added that the existing trend is consistent with what is expected given the impact of climate on the deposition, absorption, and degradation of persistent organic pollutants including pesticides.

Experts prostate cancer

St-Hilaire and his colleagues studied the risk of prostate cancer in a number of states in the United States and looking for connections between local weather patterns. Eventually they found that the relationship between weather and prostate cancer may exist due to the cold weather slows the degradation of pollutants. According to background information in the study, prostate cancer will strike seki-tar one of the six men. The report mentions that the patient is generally located in the northern hemisphere.

"This study provides an additional hypothesis for the distribution of prostate cancer patients in northern and southern hemisphere, which is built on the assumption that people in the northern latitudes may be deficient in vitamin D from exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UV) is low during the winter," said St-Hilaire.

Furthermore, he also added, "Our study shows that in addition to vitamin D deficiency associated with exposure to UV radiation, other meteorological conditions it can also significantly affect the incidence of prostate cancer," he explained.

Other research found that men are infertile or barren would risk doubling of prostate cancer than fertile men. The study was conducted in Washington, United States of more than 20,000 people. Worse, the type of prostate cancer that strikes men who are usually barren wild type, easy to spread and difficult to cure. These findings suggest that the growth of cancer cells and lack of sperm production have a common origin. Therefore, men who otherwise barren or infertile recommended immediately went for the detection of prostate cancer. The research is published in the journal Cancer.

The researchers compared the health records of 22,000 men who were in California IVF clinic with men of the same age from the general population. They were diagnosed as infertile men who are otherwise healthy and are free from prostate cancer. If attacked, it will be easily cured because it is still in the rate of prostate tumor benign tumor.

While, for infertile men, the opportunity to treat cancer was 2.6 times more difficult. The team of researchers from the University of Washington is said, a man who has not had a child, should consult their fertility. Therefore, male infertility can occur biologically, such as lack of sex chromosomes, or unhealthy lifestyle.

Understanding of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men and the second largest killer after lung cancer. This was based on a number of studies in the United States. Although in Asia is still relatively little sufferer, data from 13 medical schools in Indonesia country shows prostate cancer is high.

This devastating disease can not be ignored because it has killed around 10,000 men each case. Prostate cancer is rarely attack men under 45 years, unless any of you who have a family history of the disease.

The disease is usually curable when detected in the early stages. Unfortunately, this cancer often grows in the prostate gland diamdiam without any symptoms to spread to the bone and surrounding tissue.

That is why, it is important for adult men to undergo a digital rectal test that allows the doctor finds a lump or enlargement of the prostate. There was also prostatespecific antigen blood test blood test to detect the type of protein that comes out if there is a tumor of the prostate.

When doctors found the cancer, treatment will depend on several factors, including tumor size, growth rate, and whether the disease has spread beyond the prostate.

Treatment for, among others, with radiation, surgical removal of the prostate, and hormone therapy to lower testosterone levels.

Sources: okezone.com