Interesting article about cycling and PCa

[witantric]

I have seen so many avid cyclists on this forum. Hmmm.....

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[addicted2cycling]

OOPS, it's 2:30AM here in SW FL and I'm heading out for a bike ride. To HELL with that GL10 that was treated 8 years ago, I'm gonna enjoy life the best I can.

Peace to ALL. 👍👍

[jimreilly]

Lots of maybes and probablys and possiblys in this article. And some sloppy writing {"Another is ethnicity, as people of colour and African ancestry have a higher likelihood of being diagnosed and dying from prostate cancer (1 in 4 chance in black men compared to 1 in 8 for men overall), so ...."--whoa, is that a risk of 1 in 4 and 1 in 8 of being diagnosed, or of being diagnosed and dying? it's 1 in 4 and 1 in 8 of being diagnosed, but you wouldn't know that from the sentence} But an interesting article.....I wonder if tighter and repeated studies would replicate the findings?

[Teufelshunde]

Dont find these of much relevance since I dont have a prostate and we know about the other items.

[treedown]

That was one of the questions I asked after radiation. Whats the PG now, my RO said scar tissue. Does scar tissue get BPH? Not gonna stop cycling until mybbody screams no more.

[conbio]

Odd article; Crucially, although there was a six-fold increased risk of prostate cancer for those who rode over 8.5 hours per week, those cyclists still had a lower risk of developing prostate cancer than non-cyclists.

[dentaltwin in reply to conbio]

Yeah, the author(s) don't seem terribly concerned that they quote from studies and statistics that directly contradict each other.

[Don_1213]

Just as a possible corollary - I'm active in a motorcycle club where many of the members ride long distances and a lot of miles/per/year. Among the club members (which is generally an older group) it appears about 1 out of 6 men have had/or have PCa. Including me.. For a number of years before diagnosis, I would with some regularity take a 2-week to 4-week trip, averaging about 8 hours per day "in the saddle" (USA coast-to-coast a few times, much of Canada, a good sampling of Europe.) Those longer trips were interspersed with shorter trips (2-5 days).. I averaged for several years about 12,000 2-wheel miles/year.

Causative? Seems like it to me - but can't say for sure - a study has never been done that I know of.