A research run by Jennifer Stark of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and colleagues have achieved more evidence showing that a common sexually transmitted infection known as trichomoniasis may increase the risk of advanced prostate cancer which is the second most common cancer and cause of cancer death among men.
During Research the blood sample analyzed are taken from 673 men with prostate cancer who participated in the Physicians' Health Study, a large, ongoing study examining a variety of health issues. Compared to 673 similar men who did not develop prostate cancer, those with the infection were more than twice as likely to develop prostate cancer that was advanced when it was diagnosed a decade later and nearly three times as likely to get a lethal case, the researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The researchers speculated that the infection may increase the prostate cancer risk by causing inflammation in the prostate gland. The researchers said more studies are needed to confirm the results. But if they hold up, it would offer one way to reduce the toll from prostate cancer. It should be kept in mind that bio identical hormone replacement therapy is used as treatment for prostate cancer but not for the infection as its treatment is done with an inexpensive antibiotic regimen.
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