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Health Encyclopedia: Prostate Cancer Risk Factors
- Prostate Cancer Risk Factors
- Highlights
- Introduction
- Prognosis
- Symptoms of Prostate Cancer
- Conditions with Similar Symptoms
- Screening and Diagnosis
Risk Factors
The major risk factors for prostate cancer include genetic, dietary, and environmental factors that effect male hormones (androgens) and make a man more susceptible to this cancer.
Age
Prostate cancer occurs almost exclusively in men over age 40 and most often after age 50. It is estimated that by age 70, about 65% of men have at least microscopic evidence of prostate cancers. Fortunately, the cancer is often very slow growing and older men with the cancer nearly always die of somethin...
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