RE: Corrected Link/RE: Masturbation Linked To Cancer..............

[Guest guest]

Dear Rahul & Gypsy Rose

I dont find the report in the Website articlealbum.com.

Would you be kind enough to send me the report as text, for

which kindness I shall be thankful to you.

Regards

Dr. JN Sharma

On 2/3/09, Gypsy Rose <gypsy___rose@...> wrote:

> Corrected Link:

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> http://articlealbum.com/?p=166

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> Hi all,

> This sounds interesting and contradictory too to the earlier reports that

> sexual activity(intercourse or masturbation)prevented prostate cancer.But it

> looks otherwise as per the following report:http://articlealbum.com/?p=

> 166-Rahul

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[Guest guest]

Here is the link again which has worked fine everytime I have tried it. Also,

is the corresponding article. Hope this helps!

http://articlealbum.com/?p=166

ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2009) — Men who are very sexually active in their

twenties and thirties are more likely to develop prostate cancer, especially if

they masturbate frequently, according to a study of more than 800 men.

However the UK research team also found that frequent sexual activity in a man’s

forties appears to have little effect and even small levels of activity in a

man’s fifties could offer protection from the disease. Most of the differences

were attributed to masturbation rather than sexual intercourse.

The study, led by the University of Nottingham, looked at the sexual practices

of more than 431 men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age

of 60, together with 409 controls.

Men who took part in the study were asked about all aspects of their sex life

from their twenties onwards, including how old they were when they became

sexually active, how often they masturbated and had intercourse, how many sexual

partners they had had and whether they had had any sexually transmitted

diseases.

“We were keen to look at the links between sexual activity and younger men as a

lot of prostate cancer studies focus on older men as the disease is more

prevalent in men over 50” says lead author Dr Polyxeni Dimitropoulou, who is now

at the University of Cambridge.

“Hormones appear to play a key role in prostate cancer and it is very common to

treat men with therapy to reduce the hormones thought to stimulate the cancer

cells. A man’s sex drive is also regulated by his hormone levels, so this study

examined the theory that having a high sex drive affects the risk of prostate

cancer.”

The study participants, who were recruited by their family doctors, were asked

to fill in a questionnaire about their sexual habits in each decade of their

life since their twenties.

All the men with prostate cancer had been diagnosed in their fifties. Most of

the men who took part in the study (97%) were white and the majority were

currently married (84%) or widowed, separated or divorced (12%).

A number of interesting points came out of the study:

59% of the men in both groups said that they had engaged in sexual activity

(intercourse or masturbation) 12 times a month or more in their twenties. This

fell steadily as they got older, to 48% in their thirties, 28% in their forties

and 13% in their fifties.

39% of the cancer group had had six female partners or more, compared with 31%

of the control group.

Men with prostate cancer were more likely to have had a sexually transmitted

disease than those without prostate cancer.

More men with prostate cancer fell into the highest frequency groups in each

decade when it came to sexual activity (intercourse and masturbation) than men

in the control group. 40% of men in the cancer group fell into the highest

frequency category in their twenties (20 or more times a month) compared to 32%

in the control group. Similar patterns were observed in the men’s thirties and

forties. By the fifties it had evened out, with 31% in each group falling into

the most frequent category (ten or more times a month).

Men with prostate cancer were also more likely to masturbate frequently than men

in the control group, with the greatest difference in the twenties (34% versus

24%) and thirties (41% versus 31%). The differences were less pronounced in

their forties (34% versus 28%) and by the fifties the cancer group was slightly

lower (25% versus 26%).

“What makes our study stand out from previous research is that we focused on a

younger age group than normal and included both intercourse and masturbation at

various stages in the participants’ lives,” says Dr Dimitropoulou.

“Overall we found a significant association between prostate cancer and sexual

activity in a man’s twenties and between masturbation and prostate cancer in the

twenties and thirties. However there was no significant association between

sexual activity and prostate cancer in a man’s forties.

“A possible explanation for the protective effect that men in their fifties

appear to receive from overall sexual activity, and particularly masturbation,

is that the release of accumulated toxins during sexual activity reduces the

risk of developing cancer in the prostate area. This theory has, however, not

been firmly established and further research is necessary.”

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Rose

[Guest guest]

Looks like we're soon to be hearing....................JUST SAY NO TO SEXUAL

ACTIVITY.............and everything will be fine....but only if you are over

50! Yeah sure!

If ever we want to waste our time and thought process, this study is the one

to concentrate on. 800 Men, 400 Men? With numbers like that, who needs

facts?

Seems to me this study originated from a pulpit, not science and not

accuracy either.

Joe C.