Another idiotic study. Obviously bicycling does not cause cancer. Look elsewhere for the correlation.
Exactly… Here’s another take on this. By the time a teenage male has passed through to be a 20 year old, there is a significant chance they already have cancerous cells in their prostate (it would take some time to find the source but I remember reading a study a few years ago where the cadavers of teens killed in accidents were dissected and the number found with cancerous cells in their prostate was already of the order of 10% as I recollect). If you are a 60 year old male, you may as well accept the fact that the odds are that you have cancerous prostate cells in your body. By the time a man is 80 years old, chances are extremely high that he has cancerous cells in his prostate. However, cancerous cells in a prostate is not the same as cancerous cells elsewhere in your body…. the prostate is no lymph node. Most men who die of natural causes will have prostate cancer when they die….but it is very likely that it’s something else that actually is the cause of death.
What I would like to know is how this study made this determination. Did they actually conduct biopsies of men? Or did they just look at PSA results? I highly doubt that they did biopsies. If only PSA levels were looked at, then the study can be guaranteed to be total nonsense. Dr. Thomas Stamey was the Stanford medical researcher who came up with the idea that PSA levels would be a good marker for prostate cancer and after 20 years(?), his further research refuted his own study. It turns out that PSA levels have absolutely zero to do with prostate cancer (PSA levels are only good for looking at BPH)….. http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/psa-test-prostate-cancer.html The results of Stamey’s study have been out there now for 10 years and yet the inertia of the original concept of using PSA levels still exists….. probably due to the fact that doctors like the idea of a quick and simple cookie cutter style test and can’t live with the idea that the test doesn’t exist.