Sexual promiscuity increases prostate cancer risk in men: Study

Articles: Sexual promiscuity increases prostate cancer risk in men: Study

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 06:57 AM

A new study conducted at the University of Michigan Health System has revealed that men who have had gonorrhea are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The Flint Men's Health Study, a population-based study of black men ages 40-79 living in Flint also concluded that having more than 25 lifetime sexual partners also increases odds of prostate cancer, by more than 2.5 times than that of men with five or fewer sexual partners. The study looked at Afro-American men as part of an effort to determine why black men are twice as likely as white men to develop prostate cancer and twice as likely to die from the disease. 703 black men without prostate cancer and 129 black men with prostate cancer were asked about their number of sexual partners, age at first intercourse, frequency of sexual activity and history of sexually transmitted diseases. According to lead study author Aruna Sarma, "Our results suggest gonorrhea may play a role in the development of prostate cancer in African-American men. Although we are unable to show that gonorrhea directly causes prostate cancer, we suspect the inflammatory effect of the gonorrhea infection may trigger pre-existing cancerous cells to multiply." 65 percent of the men with prostate cancer reported having had gonorrhea, compared to 53 percent of men without prostate cancer. Men with prostate cancer were also more likely to report being diagnosed more than once with gonorrhea, a bacterial infection transmitted through sexual intercourse.

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