A risk factor is anything else, someone who can increase the chances of developing a disease. It may be an activity, such as smoking, diet, family history or other things. Several diseases including cancer, various risk factors. As a general rule, all men with a risk of prostate cancer. However, there are risk factors increase the likelihood that some men, disease, including the following:

Age is a risk factor for prostate cancer, especially men aged 50 and older. More than 80 percent of all prostate cancers are diagnosed in men aged 65. Course: prostate cancer is almost twice as common among African-American men, as it belongs to men of the Caucasus and the USA. Japanese and Chinese men native to their countries of the lowest rates of prostate cancer.

Regime: The data indicate that food consumed in Western industrialized countries, one of the most important factors for the development of prostate cancer. The following information regarding nutrition and its impact on the risk of prostate cancer are men who eat a high fat food can be a greater chance for the development of prostate cancer. Dietary fiber intake reduced the progression of prostate cancer. Soy protein reduces fat home and soy isoflavones have been found to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer. Vitamin E and selenium, vitamin E, an antioxidant, combined with selenium, showed that tumor growth in laboratory animals. Carotenoids lycopenes carotenoids, it was found to inhibit the growth of prostate cancer cells in human tissue culture. The main source of trafficking lycopenes tomato in tomatoes and tomato juice. Obesity, being overweight is not only about diabetes and high cholesterol, but has also been in contact with certain types of common cancers, including prostate cancer.

Vasectomy, BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy) or STD (sexually transmitted diseases) researchers have cast a glance whether men who have a vasectomy, BPH, or those with exposure vis-à-vis STD's with an increased risk of prostate cancer. Some studies suggest an association, while others do not. History of the family of prostate cancer. A father or brother with prostate cancer, a man doubled the risk of developing prostate cancer. The risk is even higher for men concerned by several families. Geneticist families are divided into three groups, depending on the number of men with prostate cancer and age of departure, including the following: sporadic - a family with prostate cancer in a man, a beginning of the classical age. Familiaris - a family with prostate cancer in more than one person, but no definitive model of inheritance and, as a general rule, older from the outset. Héréditaires - Five to 10 per cent of cases of prostate cancer are considered hereditary. Genetic about 9 percent of all prostate cancers and 45 percent of cases among men aged under 55 years may be due to a security problem for hereditary breast cancer gene, as a dominant (from parent to child).