Vasectomy and prostate cancer?

I have done a little searching for you and once again the jury is still out on this issue.

https://www.healthline.com/health/prostate-cancer/vasectomy-and-prostate-cancer

Hi Alwayshope

Thanks for this link. It provides a very interesting and thought-provoking read!  I think the paper could be summed up as 'hedging your bets'!!!!  

Hi worriedwife, the only PCa link to a vasectomy i ever heard was that it probably does not increase your chances but may be linked to slightly more aggressive PCa. On a similar thread  there is evidence that more virile men who produce more sperm more often with high fertility are less likely to get PCa, that explains mine then, happy cruising, take care,

Eddie

Hi WW,

I also have a nagging theory. My partner works at a desk, as long as I've know him he's spent most of his day in a sitting position. He will work sitting, have lunch sitting, back to work and then sit down for tea and watch TV.  Since he's worked from home for the last 10 years it's been very noticeable. I think a sitting down job compacts and squashes the lower area too much. ( No Vasectomy btw)

L

Just found this, 30% is huge

"In the study, it was found that men with office jobs, who spend a lot of the day seated, were 30% more likely to have cancer of the prostate, suggesting that physical activity is key to helping to keep the disease at bay. If you work in an office job, stop and think about how much of your day you spend sitting down."

Thank you , Eddie. Your evidence doesn’t fit our own experience as in the first 5 years of our marriage we had 4 kids - 2 singletons and a set.of twins! We sure were busy!

My husband didn’t have a sedentary job. He did though, work with a lot of toxic chemicals and other substances including oil. We always instructed our male employees to wash their hands before going to the loo as well as after as per guidelines at the time.

This is interesting, Eddie. But why do the cancers occur in different form and in different parts of the body? I can understand, say, that asbestos or nicotine affects the lungs. But why do processed foods cause, say, bowel cancer in one or breast cancer in another? Why do children, with minimal exposure to processed food in terms of time get cancer and some people live into old age and have eaten lots of processed food don’t get it?

I read somewhere that the two most common questions people ask when given an unwanted diagnosis are ‘why me? Why now?’

Will we ever really know te answers?

Anyone sitting at a desk all day should get up a couple of times an hour and walk around.  This also shows the importance of exercise.  Whatever you do you need to exercise.  I spent practically no time behind a desk during my career and had to get up and exercise taking other staff on runs in my lunch hour- though towards the end of my career I did sit down more as I moved into higher managerial rolls but I still went jogging at lunch time, or taking sports teams for coaching and keep fit classes when their instructors didn't turn up or had something else to attend to.  It was my job so I can't expect others with different careers to be able to do this but we do need to exercise.