Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention
  Learn about the risk factors for prostate cancer


Prostate Cancer Risk Factors


A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Different cancers have different risk factors. Some risk factors, like smoking, can be changed. Others, like a person’s age or family history, can’t be changed.
But having a risk factor, or even several, does not mean that you will get the disease. Many people with one or more risk factors never get cancer, while others who get cancer may have had few or no known risk factors.


Age


Prostate cancer is rare in men younger than 40, but the chance of having prostate cancer rises rapidly after age 50. About 6 in 10 cases of prostate cancer are found in men older than 65.

Race/ethnicity


 Prostate cancer occurs more often in African-American men and in Caribbean men of African ancestry than in men of other races. African-American men are also more than twice as likely to die of prostate cancer as white men. Prostate cancer occurs less often in Asian-American and Hispanic/Latino men than in non-Hispanic whites. The reasons for these racial and ethnic differences are not clear.

Geography


 Prostate cancer is most common in North America, northwestern Europe, Australia, and on Caribbean islands. It is less common in Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America.

 The reasons for this are not clear. More intensive screening in some developed countries probably accounts for at least part of this difference, but other factors such as lifestyle differences (diet, etc.) are likely to be important as well.

Family history


 Prostate cancer seems to run in some families, which suggests that in some cases there may be an inherited or genetic factor. (Still, most prostate cancers occur in men without a family history of it.)

Gene changes


 Several inherited gene changes seem to raise prostate cancer risk, but they probably account for only a small percentage of cases overall.

 Factors with less clear effect on prostate cancer risk
  • Diet
  • Obesity
  • Smoking
  • Chemical exposures
  • Inflammation of the prostate

Generic Prostate Cancer Drugs in India


 Abiraterone is a type of hormone therapy. It is used to treat prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. 

 Abiraterone 250 mg Zytiga Tablets

Brand Name : Zytiga
Active Ingredients : Abiraterone Acetate
Manufactured by: Johnson Cilag SPA via C Janssen
Strength: 250 mg
Form: Tablets
Packing: Pack of 120 Tablets

How does Abiraterone treat Prostate Cancer ?


Abiraterone works by stopping the production of the hormone testosterone. Without testosterone, the cancer cells can't grow, wherever they are in the body.
Location: Africa

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