this article might upset the ones who have pca and only had one partner.

~ curtis
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Thursday, June 10, 2004

A study of African-American men in Flint, Mich., suggests that men who
have had gonorrhea are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer,
TB and Outbreaks Week reports. Researchers asked 703 African-American
men without prostate cancer and 129 black men with the disease about
their number of sexual partners, frequency of sexual activity, history
of sexually transmitted diseases, and other questions related to their
sexual activity. Sixty-five percent of the men with prostate cancer
reported having had gonorrhea, compared with 53% of cancer-free men. Men
with prostate cancer also were more likely to report having had more
than one gonorrhea diagnosis and to have had more than 25 sexual
partners in their lifetimes. Men who had more than 25 sexual partners
were more than 2.5 times more likely to have prostate cancer than men
with five or fewer partners.
"Although we are unable to show that gonorrhea directly causes prostate
cancer, we suspect the inflammatory effect of the gonorrhea infection
may trigger preexisting cancerous cells to multiply," said lead author
Aruna Sarma, an assistant research scientist in the department of
urology at University of Michigan Medical School.

The study was presented at the recent American Urological Association's
meeting in San Francisco.  

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional    
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."