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Why are some men at greater risk for prostate cancer?
Age is the most important risk factor for prostate cancer. Having relatives with prostate or breast cancer increases risk. Certain rare genes like BRCA2 can raise the risk of important prostate cancer by 7 times. Black men are more likely to get prostate cancer than Asian men. A healthy diet and exercise can help reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
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Why are some men at greater risk for prostate cancer?
- 1. Why Do SomeMen Get Prostate Cancer? Mr Marc Laniado MD FEBU FRCS(Urol) Consultant Urological Surgeon
- 2. Normal prostate cellscan turn into an uncontrolled growth of cancer cells Normal cells Cancer cells
- 3. Age is themost important risk factor for prostate cancer
- 4. Relatives with prostateor breast cancer increase the risk Pancreatic Prostate Prostate PancreaticBreast Breast ProstateProstate Ovary Colon
- 5. Some rare geneseg BRCA2 raise risk 7 x for important PCa Affected: inherited faulty gene from 1 parentUnaffected: inherited 1 normal gene from each parent ` ` Affected parentUnaffected parent Gene pair: 1 of pair is faultyGene pair: both normal ` ` ` `
- 6. Black men morelikely to get prostate cancer than Asians
- 7. Healthy diet andexercise can reduce risk of prostate cancer