Prostate cancer and men's condition

Men with prostate cancer who were previously infected with the sexually transmitted germ Trichomonas vaginal are more likely to have an combative configuration of the cancer compared with men who never had the STD. The germ, a type of parasite, can infect the prostate and may cause redness that spurs the cultivation of prostate cancer later in life.In the study, Mucci and colleagues compared 673 prostate cancer patients to 673 men without prostate cancer, and tested their blood for signs of a past infection with trichomonas. All of the men were enrolled in the Physician’s Health Study, according to the report published this week in the Magazine of the National Cancer Institute.The researchers establish that roughly 1 in 5 men had been infected with trichomonas at some point in his life.  Men infected with trichomonas were no more likely than STD-free men to bring out prostate cancer in general. But those with a past trichomonas infection were two to three times more likely to advance an combative and potentially life-threatening configuration of prostate cancer. Trichomonas affects 174 million people around the world each year and, at any given period, about 3% of younger men are infected with trichomonas; it is most common in men ages 25 to 39. However, trichomonas is an STD that’s probably on more women’s radars because women are more likely than men to get symptoms such as release and itching. Only 1 out of 4 men with trichomonas develops symptoms, and, with period, the infection often goes away on its own.