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Posted 4/27/2015 4:03 PM (GMT 0)
This piece of news popped up this morning...

/news.yahoo.com/prostate-cancer-risk-linked-baldness-145738999.html
Posted 4/27/2015 4:30 PM (GMT 0)
I and my brothers prove theory wrong - three full heads of hair, only one grey, yet all three of us have PC.
Posted 4/27/2015 7:04 PM (GMT 0)
My Hubby has a full head of very white hair...
Posted 4/27/2015 9:31 PM (GMT 0)
On a factual basis: there is some linkage between high testosterone levels and PC. There is also linkage between high testosterone and baldness. Here's the most important physical trait that leads to prostate cancer: having a prostate. 100% of PC patients have (or had) one.
Posted 4/28/2015 11:42 AM (GMT 0)
I can only say this about these apparent links to PC.

I saw a link concerning the length if the index finger
I saw a link concerning testosterone levels
I saw a link about genetic predispositions
I see this link about baldness

My doctor announced I had Gleason 9 PC.

In my 58 years of life prior to my doctor's diagnosis, what could I do to change any of these things ?

Nothing.

So all anyone can do is have periodic PSA levels checked, and DRE's when indicated, and keep on living.

Prove to me that some sort of change in diet, an increase or decrease in the amount of sex, or running a pipe cleaner through the system once a month through the pipe, and I might listen.

Otherwise, I don't read these misuses of public money that find correlations or supposed links to things we can't control.

Goodlife
Posted 4/28/2015 12:08 PM (GMT 0)
Oh, and one more fact,

73.5 % of men over 80 have frontal baldness, and 57 % of women are affected with it.

Roughly the same percent of men will have prostate cancer, and I haven't digested the woman thing yet.

Interesting ?
Posted 4/28/2015 2:03 PM (GMT 0)
Fairwind,

Interesting .... Do you think a hair transplant would cure PCa?👨
Posted 4/28/2015 2:38 PM (GMT 0)
I have a nice head of hair graying only around the edges, and 4/5 G9 PC. So my odds are improved long term? really?
The fact they admit they did not have sufficient men with severe baldness to assess the risk says it was a small under-powered study. A large group of older fellows would include men with severe baldness.

If it was a small group it could have been local to where men are tall and their beds too short, that might explain it....
Posted 4/28/2015 8:19 PM (GMT 0)
There is a lot of correlation between low testosterone levels and prostate cancer, rather than high testosterone levels. Some studies have indicated that men with low testosterone levels are more likely to have higher grade cancers as well.

There is no established causation, but correlations have been found multiple times:

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/540617_2

www.lef.org/magazine/2008/12/destroying-the-myth-about-testosterone-replacement-prostate-cancer/page-01

www.natureworldnews.com/articles/6888/20140505/low-testosterone-levels-marker-aggressive-prostate-cancer.htm

breakthroughs.cityofhope.org/testosterone-prostate-cancer-risk

www.webmd.com/men/news/20071127/low-testosterone-early-death

And, yes, I had low T before my diagnosis, took TRT for a year, had my diagnosis and treatment, and then resumed TRT 6 months after my RALP. I will admit I'm not an unbiased observer on this topic.
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