"Healthy men? No baby, Yes cancer in some:
Low or no sperm,
men get short end of the stick
cancer risk increased up to 8%"
~ Cynthia G. Creel
6-25-2013
My story:
It was frustrating for my friends trying to have a baby. Finally after 10 years of trying a baby was born. Not sure, but I always thought they wanted more and in light of how long it to conceive the first one my thoughts were it just didn’t happen. At the time I thought how difficult it is to want something so badly and not be able to do what most find easy or extra easy to produce off spring.
About 20 years ago when this was happening to my friend the thought there was more to this than just being a little unlucky never occurred to me. Now with a new study showing a possible connection between the ability to father a baby and cancer I have to wonder will my friends one day say he has cancer?
Study from Stanford University shows new risk of cancer for men who may not be able to father a baby:
Not being able to have a baby may be the low priority when a greater challenge may appear a greater risk of cancer. Stanford University School of Medicine (1) studied 2,238 infertile men from 1989 to 2009 finding men with early diagnoses before age 30 carrying up to 8 times the risk of developing cancer. Also low sperm count increased the risk of developing cancer.
In the United States about 15 percent or 4 million of the male populations is infertile and about 600,000 are azoospermic could be at risk for testicular cancer and beyond. About one forth of the men had and nonobstructive aaoospermia while the others has something that was blocking the sperm from escaping the body.
Michael Eisenberg, MD, PhD, assistant professor of urology at the medical school and director of male reproductive medicine and surgery at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, said “There is evidence that infertility may be a barometer for men’s overall health,” One-fourth of all the genes are responsible for human reproduction development in a baby. The azoospermic men in the study also noted and increase in other cancers such as brain, prostate and stomach tumors, as well as melanoma, lymphoma, testicular cancer and cancer of the small intestine. The study wasn‘t able to explain the exact connection to any particular cancer. “Eisenberg said, supporting the notion that azoospermia and cancer vulnerability may share common genetic causes”
“Weaker” sex men or women or both?:
When I was young my father was strong and invincible and in my thirties the reality hit he had developed cancer which meant he may die. He did die in his early seventies, not from the cancer, but a heart attack. His death was less then a decade after my mom’s battle with cancer was lost. I feel like women are looked as the “weaker” sex many times possibly created by the thought that they them more susceptible to cancers with national attention given to breast cancer. Wearing a pink ribbon should tell most that the person is supporting the Breast Cancer Society, but does it tell them women or men or both who are being affected? Even the thought of breast cancer brings a women to my mind according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2) in 2009, 211,731 women were diagnosed with breast cancer with less than one man for every 100 cases, The highest risk for men and breast cancer is between the ages of 60 and 70. Men don’t suffer or die because they develop cancer? Are those men just as important as the women and do they need just as much help. Or do men need extra help because they may think they are stronger?
Should young men have sperm count test?
In school the thought a man would not be able to produce a baby was not the idea. Only that protection from producing an unwanted baby was needed.
With this new study it seems part of a physical could be a look at the quality of the semen produced by a man. With 4 million known affected by infertile or azoospermic how many men are at risk and never checked until the day they are trying to have a baby? If a doctors aren’t looking then we really don’t know how wide spread a problem this is.
It only takes one sperm to create a baby so even if man has fathered a child, the risk is still unknown unless each man have been identified with sperm production challenges. In my book the earlier the better. So should teens be tested?
Factors that may affect sperm production:
The environmental factors affecting sperm run wide in modern society. According to the CDC (3) the sperm may be affected by heavy use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit substances like marijuana, cocaine or steroids, environmental exposures, pesticides, and dioxins, hobbies that involve refinishing furniture, repairing cars, painting; building models, or using strippers, degreasers, or non-water-based glues or paints can expose the patient to organic solvents. Hobbies that involve painting, making pottery, making stained glass, or handling, or some medications.
Final words:
Our mind set of cancer affecting only one sex is out dated. If a person is developing cancer they are the “weaker” ones and need the most help prevent the formation of cancer. If a man or women is uninformed it make them weaker than if they understand. With understanding comes a chance of change, a hope to move beyond the risk. It is why when we have cancer it affects everyone either if they are the ones who have developed it or it is a friend or loved one who is battling it.
Like so many other bits and pieces of information lost in space. Doctor’s are only as good as their education and what they are able to remember or to remember to be able to look up on a computer is how well they will be able to care for a patient.
The warning that if a man is infertile or azoospermic may have a higher risk of developing cancer leaves a doctor’s office with out being told that may leave the man with happiness out of ignorance not fully informed or prepared. It may leave some men with the idea that they don’t have to watch as closely to what is going on with their bodies which may help to lower a risk or early detection of cancer.
Looking at the whole picture always helps me make a better choice. Be more proactive we can all become just a little bit better and the more likely the negative results in life can be avoided. Stand up tall with an upright posture and be proactive. The solution helps to keep moving the best direction is to step onto the path of True Health. Discover a new world. Help yourself, help the world, step on to the Path of True Health and vote with your dollars company you want to support to create a world you will love to live in. I do, and I like the world I am helping to create. Together we can create a better life for all to remember over their entire lifetime Together we can protect what we have so we don’t need to live in a world that is second rate.
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Source:
(1) http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/june/sperm.html
(2) http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/basic_info/fast_facts.htm
(3) http://www.cdc.gov/preconception/careformen/exposures.html
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