What are the high risk factors for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a common prostate disease in life. Prostate cancer can cause significant physical harm to patients. Many young men have a great misunderstanding about prostate cancer, believing that they will not develop prostate cancer if they are young. In fact, this is a manifestation of their ignorance. Do you know what are the high-risk factors for prostate cancer?

The high risk factors of prostate cancer are important factors leading to an increasing number of prostate cancer in men. Therefore, it is important for everyone to take a look at the high risk factors of prostate cancer and see how they can avoid these factors that trigger prostate cancer?

1、 Age: Age is the main risk factor for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is very rare in men younger than 45 years old, but with the increase of age, the incidence rate of prostate cancer rises sharply, and most patients with prostate cancer are older than 65 years old. Basically, the incidence rate of prostate cancer almost doubles every 10 years after the age of 40. The risk of prostate cancer for men aged 50 to 59 years is 10%, while the risk of prostate cancer for men aged 80 to 89 years increases sharply to 70%.

2、 Family history: When there is a direct male relative in the family who suffers from prostate cancer, the incidence rate of men in the family is significantly higher. Immediate male relatives generally refer to fathers and brothers. If one immediate relative of a relative has prostate cancer, the probability of developing prostate cancer is twice as high as that of the general population; If there were two, it would be three times higher. This indicates that the occurrence of prostate cancer may be related to one or a group of genes in the body, but these genes have not yet been fully identified by scientists.

3、 Race: The incidence rate of prostate cancer is the highest among African Americans (that is, black Americans), followed by Hispanics and white Americans, and the incidence of prostate cancer among black Africans is the lowest in the world. The incidence of prostate cancer among Asian men living in the United States is lower than among Caucasians, but significantly higher than among indigenous men in Asia. Although the incidence rate of prostate cancer among yellow people has not yet reached the level of European and American countries, the incidence rate of prostate cancer is increasing year by year in Chinese Mainland, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

The high risk factors for prostate cancer are strongly related to a man's age, family history, and ethnicity, which is also the reason for the increasing number of prostate cancer patients. For prostate cancer, a terrible disease that endangers men's lives, we should not be too concerned. Only by paying more attention to some methods of preventing prostate cancer and exercising more in life can we avoid the occurrence of prostate cancer.