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Author:
Dean Iggo

What causes prostate cancer? The world around you. Doctors and scientists are starting to take note of the environmental factors as a serious cancer risk, and the cancer prevention techniques many suggest may not always be possible depending on where you live.

What Environmental Factors Can Put You At Risk?

Many scientists have begun to link the occupation of farming to prostate cancer in an attempt to answer the “What causes prostate cancer” question. Why farmers? There are several reasons that farmers might have a higher risk of prostate cancer than other occupations. One reason farmers might have a higher susceptibility to conditions like prostate cancer is some of the chemicals they use in their daily jobs. Pesticides and growth enhancers have both been linked to problems with the human body, and because these chemicals have not been existence long enough to complete long term studies on their effects on the human body, it is quite possible that they are the reason for the higher risk to farmers. Another possible reason to the answer “What causes prostate cancer” in terms of those in the farm industry is engine exhaust. Farmers work around many different kinds of vehicles, and the fumes each engine puts off places them at a higher risk of exposure to dangerous chemicals that cause the body to overload with toxins, creating conditions like prostate cancer.

Farming, though, is not the only risk profession in terms of cancers. Another high risk profession for prostate cancer is mining. Most miners have high levels of cadmium exposure at some point in their careers. While many people are exposed to cadmium, few are exposed at the rate most miners are. Because this can get into your blood stream through your pores, it can also cause serious problems with organs and glands like the prostate.

What causes prostate cancer? We may never know for sure, but environmental factors may be putting you at risk. Talk to your doctor if you are concerned about your risk factors.

Dean Iggo is the webmaster of ProstateHealthAdvice.com which provides prostate cancer symptoms and treatments of everything from an enlarged prostate to prostate cancer

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