Is prostate cancer hereditary?

The onset of prostate cancer will bring great pain to patients. People have always been wondering why people get sick when they are perfectly healthy and develop such a serious disease as prostate cancer. So far, people still cannot give a clear answer to the cause of prostate cancer.

Through a large number of epidemiological surveys, although some people have proposed the relationship between genetic factors and prostate cancer, it has not yet been confirmed because there is currently insufficient evidence to prove that if the previous generation had prostate cancer, the next generation will also get the disease. It is rare for prostate cancer to be inherited among direct relatives.
Despite this, in terms of tumor genetics research, the medical community still classifies prostate cancer as a familial cancer. That is to say, prostate cancer tends to occur in certain families. The reason for this phenomenon may be due to genetic factors, but it is more likely due to the same family members having common living habits, the same living environment, the same external interference or the same "carcinogenic factors" stimulation.