Sunday, January 4, 2009

Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer?
Is it possible to get prostate cancer from not gowing to the bathroom to pee when you feel like it? For example when you wake up in the middle of the night and feel that you have to go but just decide to let it for when you get out of bed in the morning? I've heard many people saying that this eventually leads to prostate cancer.

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Men's Health - 3 Answers
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1 :
NO I am not aware of any evidence of this. prostate cancer is a hormone dependant growth. If you have an enlarged prostate and don't pee you may get an acute retention-you cannot pee even though you want to.. This could lead to prostatitis which is an infection of the prostate but not prostate cancer. You doctor can screen you for prostate cancer and also measure your prostatic specific antigen PSA tomato products contain lycopene are believed to help prostate-tomato soup./puree etc
2 :
No. The prostate gland produces the viscus fluid for semen to travel. It does not involve your urinary tract until much later in life when it enlarges and makes it difficult to urinate by pressing on the base of the bladder and reducing your capacity to urinate. I have always felt that regular ejaculation would be a deterrent of prostate enlargement and perhaps cancer because of the regular use of the gland.
3 :
No, this won't cause prostate cancer, but it may cause bladder infections from holding stagnant urine in it for too long. Could damage the kidneys too. Urine doesn't go back up the branch of the spermatic tube that leads to the prostate.

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