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Studies correlated between smoking and prostate cancer
Smoking harms health: it promotes the development of numerous - sometimes fatal - diseases. Scientists were now able to statistically confirm a connection between smoking and prostate cancer.
Connection between smoking and prostate cancer
It has long been known that the consumption of tobacco harms health. However, smokers not only get sick and die of lung cancer. Rather, numerous diseases have now been scientifically confirmed as "typical" smoker's diseases. Among them various cancers such as colon cancer and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack. Prostate cancer is one of those cancers that can be more common in smokers. However, the actual biological causes are unclear. As reported by the news agency APA, a summary investigation of existing data substantiates the statistical context. The results have now been published in the journal "European Urology". The leading researchers involved were MedUni Vienna researchers.
Smokers are twice as likely to be at risk
As the University announced in a report, the study shows "that smokers and ex-smokers after a removal of the prostate for prostate cancer to non-smokers have a significantly higher, namely twice as high risk to contract prostate cancer again". Shahrokh F. Shariat, Head of the University Department of Urology (AKH / MedUni Vienna), said: "The results of our study emphasize that it is important to inform people with prostate cancer about the negative effects of smoking." Together with Malte Rieken He has prepared the study from the Department of Urology of the University Hospital Basel, for which the data of approximately 7,200 prostate cancer patients from the period between the years 2000 and 2011 were analyzed.
Smoking is always worthwhile
It was about the evaluation of existing patient data on the frequency of occurrence of a "biochemical recurrence". Prostate cancer is a relapse characterized by changes in laboratory values (PSA value from the blood). However, the negative effects of tobacco consumption on the risk of biochemical recurrence appear to be at least ten years from the cessation of smoking. Therefore, the motto is: Better to quit smoking late than never. Shariat also said, "It's never too late to quit smoking. On the contrary. As our study shows, weaning makes sense even if you already have prostate cancer. "Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in German men and the third most common cause of cancer death. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the number of new cases has risen in recent years. (Ad)