Hair loss or alopecia is perhaps the aesthetic problem of most concern to men, especially when it occurs early, barely 20 years old. But as the saying goes, the bad things there is always something good and have to cheer bald: hair loss reduces the risk of advanced prostate cancer .
A group of specialists from the School of Medicine, University of Washington concluded that early male pattern baldness reducing the risk of prostate cancer by nearly half. This is great news, because prostate cancer is one of the most common and dangerous.
After analyzing more than two thousand men between 40 and 47 years of age, half of which suffered from prostate cancer to varying degrees, the researchers compared the rate of cancer among those who developed his baldness before age 30 and those who had never lost hair. The results indicated that tumor risks were much lower (from 39 to 45%) in those who had lost hair.
As is well known that hair loss in men is associated with genetic factors such as overproduction of the hormone dihydrotestosterone, experts indicated that these results could be useful for future studies to understand the relationship between hormones and tissues body.
This research discussed today will be available in the next issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology.
Tags: Alopecia, Androgenic alopecia, Baldness, cancer, Dihydrotestosterone, Prostate cancer, Risk, University of Washington,