Will my father's prostate cancer be inherited?

Will my father's prostate cancer be inherited? In real life, cancer always makes people shudder. Prostate cancer is a common malignant tumor in the male reproductive system. The disease increases with age. The incidence rate in my country was lower than that in Europe and the United States before, but due to the aging of the population in my country, the incidence rate has increased in recent years. In life, there are many reasons for this disease, so is prostate cancer inherited?

Relevant surveys show that if a person has prostate cancer, his children and other blood relatives will have a higher chance of getting prostate cancer than the average person. In other words, having a family history of prostate cancer will increase the chance of getting the disease.

According to relevant reports, Swedish male scientists conducted long-term observations on 5,595 fathers and found that male prostate cancer, like female breast cancer, has genetic characteristics.

1. If a male friend's father was diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 70, then their son's chance of suffering from this disease will be 2.5 times higher than the average person.

2. If a man’s father is diagnosed with prostate cancer after the age of 70, his son’s chance of developing the disease is 1.5 times higher than that of an ordinary man.

3. There are also some special cases. If there are two or more male close relatives of a male friend who suffer from prostate cancer at the same time, then the probability of their relatives suffering from prostate cancer will increase by 14 times! This means that prostate cancer is hereditary.