Trivia question about PC

There are only 3 animals known to get prostate cancer. Can you name them?

The vet told me our male Shih-Tzu dog died from prostate cancer. She said un-neutered males were especially prone to the disease.

His name was Moki. Smartest dog I've ever owned. His death made me more aware of my own situation and greatly influenced my decision to see a urologist.

So, dogs and cats, and perhaps apes? I'm sure of the dogs and cats, but guessing about apes.

I disagree. Here's a link about cats: http://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/cancer/c_ct_adenocarcinoma_prostate

And this article would suggest that while the incidence is less in chimpanzees, it still occurs:
http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/zimney-health-and-medical-news-you-can-use/when-it-comes-to-cancer-chimps-arent-us/

Well, not sure human counts, since post Lupron we are not the animal we used to be.

LupronJim

Monkeys

Clocknut---you do know what they do to rule out mets in cats, right?

Or perhaps a pet scan for both dogs and cats...

Jerry L. said...
I'm rereading "The Empororer of All Maladies" and the author states that the only animals to develop PC are humans, dogs, and lions.

I find that amazing...

As PC is thought of mostly as an old man's disease, and for sure it will be ultra rare for a 20 or 30 year old to get it and your odds start greatly escalating each year past 50 or 60, how many non-human animals have the life span needed to get it? Don't know about lions, but dogs are well under 20 years for average lifespan I think.

Plus, are we humans exposed to lifestyle/diet choices that would increase our PC chances? That is if anyone has conclusively shown what these diets/lifestyles are which are harmful? Like say maybe dairy? How many dogs or lions have a lot of dairy in their diet?

All in all, I guess I had not thought in terms of non-humans getting PC, but I guess they do?

Does sexual activity lower PC risk? I'm thinking the average human male has a lot more sex for a lot more years than the average family dog, or even lions. So maybe lack of sex is what does them in? Not to mention the stress of 1st having to(in the wild at least) fight/injure or kill many male rivals, often with the winner taking all of the cute gals. The stress of that lifestyle could def be a big negative on all manner of health issues for winner and loser. Plus, you might be the winner this year, but your gonna hate next year or the one after that most likely.

Post Edited (BillyBob@388) : 9/2/2014 8:42:21 PM (GMT-6)

How about red meat? How many animals eat red meat?

There has been one Nobel Prize in prostate cancer research ~ Charles Huggins. He won it in 1966 after extensive research on why neutered dogs lived longer. He was not an oncologist when he started out but when he made the connection that prostate cancer and breast cancer were hormonal cancers it was indeed time for a Nobel.

So he was doing all of his PCa work on dogs. When the dog was neutered it rarely developed prostate cancer. So he tried it on men that had prostate cancer. Typically men lived 6 months once diagnosed in the 1940's. By the end of Huggins research in the late 50's it was common for these same men to live well over ten years.

Here's a very interesting article for ya on it. Much hypothesis, but I think it rings true.

urology.jhu.edu/newsletter/prostate_cancer511.php

That was 14 years ago in that article. Still a lot of support for the theory. But we need trials.