Infertile men are more likely to develop adenocarcinoma

Men who have difficulty making fathers are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than ordinary people, US data show.

The new study found a link between fatherhood and prostate cancer.Photo: SPL.

The research team found this result after investigating the cancer profile of many men at fertility treatment hospitals in California.

Specifically, Dr. Thomas Walsh from the University of Washington in Seattle investigated 22,562 men, went to infertility tests at 15 hospitals in California, from 1967 to 1998.

The BBC said that among 4,500 people known to be male infertility, 19 developed prostate cancer in the most dangerous form.

While with the same number of people in the normal population, only 16 people have this disease at a dangerous level.

Overall, infertile men were diagnosed with prostate cancer - the most dangerous form - higher than 2.6 times normal.

Although there are still many issues to learn, this result shows that this may be a suggestion that infertile men should go for early screening of the prostate gland.

However, Dr. Helen Rippon, head of research at the Prostate Cancer Charity, said that with the small number of affected people, it is difficult to draw any conclusions about the link. between prostate and male infertility.

Signs of prostate cancer:

- Have to rush to the toilet to urinate;
- Difficulty urinating;
- Urinate more often than usual;
- Pain when urinating;
- Blood in the urine or semen.