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I asked my doctor if I still have prostate infection. He said no but no testing was done. ( I still have a prostate gland not treated). I was treated for an infection most likely around the age of 35. Doctor would do DRE collect prostate fluid under a microscope and treat with anti-biotics of some kind. This was about 55 years ago.

Does an infection cause Pca?

Is a possible infection being over looked by the doctors and we may still have one? If so what does this mean..

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LearnAll

Chronic infection in prostate gland is one reason of development prostate cancer.

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tango65 in reply toLearnAll

Do you have a link for studies proving chronic infection of the prostate causes PC? It is a difficult issue because the coexistence of both pathologies may not indicate causality.

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LearnAll in reply totango65

There are several papers about role of chronic infection and formation of cancerous cells.In fact, its not just chronic prostate infection but chronic gum infection (gingivitis) which has been implicated. Chronic infection and inflammation of stomach predisposes to gastric cancer, chronic inflammation of lung tissue predisposes to lung cancer and so on.

Due to lack of time I can not pull out those articles from my thick files . Keeping systemic inflammation as low as possible helps retarding growth of cancer. Aim should be to keep C Reactive Protein below 0.5.

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I was treated in Canada for a non-specific UTI with Cipro, while I also had issues with an enlarged prostate twice, in response to suspected UTI symptoms, and a rise in PSA from 4-8. This, despite clinical evidence implicating Cipro in peripheral nerve disease....which I now still suffer from. No UT cultures were done. I then went to a doc schooled in western and Chinese medicine. He did a DNA type test, which resulted in a finding of ureaplasma infection. An older, less aggressive antibiotic cleared it up. It doesn't matter to me whether or not I noticed any effects of the meds, because shortly after that, as my PSA continued to increase toward 20, I was subsequently diagnosed with G8 Pca, stage 4. Why this practice of widespread treatment of increased PSA, with the assumption that its cause is due to BHP or prostate infection, with an antibiotic linked to peripheral nerve disease, without first investigating the possibility of Pca defies logic. The time wasted on this likely contributed to the progressive growth of 2 large tumours diagnosed not long after the foregoing process. PS, I am currently in my 6th year of remission, with undetectable PSA, after very aggressive treatment in a center of excellence in the US. I believe I'd now be on the wrong side of the grass, had I stayed in Canada for treatment.

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oh Man, I’m following, you!!!!

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Can you give the treatments you received ? Thanks

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Dannyboy48

I just got over a prostate infection. It took me many months to find out what it was all of the urine test came back negative but my oncologist ran a culture test and that’s where the infection was found. I’m sure if the infection was in the prostate or in the bladder. 28 days on Cipro wasn’t the most fun but it cleared it up and I have no longer nauseous every day and no more bladder pain.

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What is the culture taken from .Thanks

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Great information . Thanks

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