Health Trivia: Do You Know the Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer?

Posted by: Kevin Riddleberger MBA, MS, PA-C on June 14, 2012 in Health Trivia

Which Increases risk Prostate Cancer

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Question 1

Trivia question: Which of the following items increases your risk of developing Prostate Cancer?

A	Age greater than 60
B	African American
C	Smoking
D	All of the above

Question 1 Explanation:

Discussion: Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States. Identification of risk factors associated with prostate cancer is a positive step in the prevention of this disease. Ultimately, the first success is an early identification of prostate cancer, allowing for earlier treatment and a greater variety of treatment options. Prostate screening has been controversial in the medical community, who has recently questioned the cost effectiveness, quality, and safety of the procedure. Clinicians have come to rely on prostate examinations and the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) laboratory tests to catch the disease in its early stages in men 50 and over as part of a regular check-up. An above normal PSA level can signal prostate cancer, but could also rise for less serious reasons such as an enlarged prostate, a prostate infection, after having sex or riding a bicycle.

The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) made a final recommendation recently against using the PSA test screening for healthy men, asserting that there is "moderate or high certainty that the service has no benefit or that the harms outweigh the benefits." The USPSTF says there is little, if any, evidence that PSA testing saves lives and that too many men instead suffer from impotence, incontinence, heart attacks, and occasionally death from treatment of tiny tumors that would never kill them. The Prostate Cancer Foundation and the American Urological Association are refuting the USPSTF recommendations and the recent clinical studies still citing the health benefits to obtaining the tests. Patients should have detailed conversations with their healthcare providers to discuss the pros and cons of obtaining a PSA blood level, yearly digital rectal exams, and other diagnostic tests when considering screening for Prostate Cancer taking in account your personal risk factors for the disease.

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D.M

Im not sure what i am dealing with. I am a 27 yr old male who comes from a family who has or has had cancer, prostate cancer being one of them and mostely bone cancer for the rest. I suffer every morning with incredible back pain until i have my DAILY MORNING bowel movement. The pain does not go away until i relieve myself. Ive went to the same dr my mother goes to because like i said, most of my family suffers from some sort of cancer and my mother has chrones disease and peptic ulcers wichake her bleed everytime she has a bowel mpvement. Ive went 2 times to get chexked out and both times they were unable to go througj with the colonoscopy because the stuff i had to drink would not flush my system clear enough for them to go along with the procedure and that scares the living S out of me. If anyone reads this and has feedback, id be much appreciated. Thank you.