on Sep 27th, 2006Sexual Behavior and Prostate Cancer in Black Men
The relationship between disease and sexual activity has a sad history in the annals of famous personalities. Deborah Hayden, in her book Pox, names a few biggies who suffered from syphilis: Baudelaire, Schubert, Schumann, Joyce, Columbus, Daudet, Poe, Gaugin, Churchill, Al Capone, Ivan the Terrible, Manet, Idi Amin, Darwin, Donizetti, Dostoyevsky, Lenin, Meriwether Lewis, Mozart, Robert Mugabe, Napoleon, Paganini, Rabelais, Stalin, Tolstoy, and Woodrow Wilson.
A recent study makes a connection between black men with gonorrhea and prostrate cancer. A rubber a day keeps the good doctor at bay…
Purpose: Black men are diagnosed with prostate cancer more often than white men, present with more advanced disease and have worse stage specific survival. Given the high risk of incidence and mortality in this population, determining potentially modifiable factors is important. Recent studies have suggested a link between chronic inflammation and development of prostate cancer. In concurrence, population based studies of white men have revealed an increased risk of prostate cancer with history of sexually transmitted diseases and prostatitis.
Conclusions: Our findings support the significance of prior sexual practices, exposure to sexually transmitted microbial agents and history of prostatic infection in the natural history of prostate cancer in black men. Additional prospective research incorporating serological markers of infectious agents or predictive markers of chronic inflammation should serve to elucidate the possible causal pathway of recurring or persistent infection in the etiology of prostate cancer in black men.
Sexual Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Prostatitis: The Risk of Prostate Cancer in Black Men
Journal of Urology, Volume 176, Issue 3, Pages 1108-1113 (September 2006)
Aruna V. Sarma et al.
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