According to Frederik Joelving from Reuters, researchers say infertile men may have an increased risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer, which “could be an important move toward identifying those who will benefit from screening for the disease.” Prostate cancer is very common among men, but a lot of doctors prefer not to screen for it because most tumors grow slowly and are harmless.
22, 000 men who had been evaluated for infertility were followed and tracked for about 30 years, and researchers found that 1.2 percent of the infertile men developed prostate cancer, while only 0.4 percent of the fertile men developed cancer. Researchers stated that infertility increased the chances of developing aggressive prostate cancer by 2.6 times. “It is not yet clear what could account for the link between infertility and prostate cancer. But researchers speculate that damages to the male sex chromosome — for instance through exposure to environmental toxins in the womb — may be involved,” reports Joelving.
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