Does smoking cause prostate cancer?

This is a rather common question and we hear it everywhere.

The main reason why we do find this type of question is because the prostate cancer is a disease associated only with the male’s reproductive system and the number of

smokers around the world increases with each passing year.



When they reach a certain age, a man’s internal organism may experience some changes and the metabolism is gravely affected by all those years of smoking which can also cause certain diseases.

Smoking, as well as other factors with a negative impact on your body like the excessive consume of alcohol, animal fats and junk food could just increase the exposure of developing a cancer disease, not only a prostate cancer.

This is precisely the reason why doctors recommend a nutritional diet rich in antioxidants and minerals. For the prevention of the prostate cancer this diet should contain only natural products like vegetables and fruits, but also nutritional supplements such as magnesium, zinc, selenium, lycopene, calcium, resveratrol or phyto-oestrogens with its two groups: isoflavonoids and lignans, found in berries, nuts and cereals, vitamin C in high doses, also vitamin A and E, amino and essential fatty acids, enzymes.

I would like to make things clear about why the prostate cancer is affecting predominately the aged male population.

After the age of forty, in the male organism the level of the hormone associated with the female part, estrogen, and that of the dihydrotestosterone or DHT, a testosterone variant, increases and so enlarging the size of the prostate, while the level of the male hormone, testosterone, declines.

You can not stop the aging process but you could try to improve your ways of life.

And since we talked about age, this has to be the most important factor in causing the development of the prostate cancer, because the risk just increases as time goes by so make sure you seek for a doctor’s counseling and have the screening tests as often as recommended.

The other important causes for the prostate cancer are race and genetic background.

We do know that all types of cancer could be inherited by the members of the same family, and the prostate cancer makes no exception.

As of the race factor, the reasons are yet to be found. What is sure is the fact that American-African men have a higher risk to get prostate cancer in comparison to the American-Caucasian ones. The lowest risk to get prostate cancer is among Hispanic and Asian men, in fact this disease is the rarest among Japanese men living in their home country, Japan.

The prostate cancer is a treatable disease, even the advanced form of prostate cancer has a treatment, but is better to prevent it. If you still have some unanswered questions about the causes of the prostate cancer, you can always seek for a professional advice you know where. And quit smoking!