ISSN: 2578-4625
Authors: Dahiya K*, Pal S, Dhankhar R, Atri R, Prakash G and Dhankhar K
Prostate cancer is one of the commonly diagnosed cancers in men worldwide. This disease is considered to be multifactorial in nature bearing a number of predisposing factors. Smoking and alcoholism are associated with a number of cancers including the prostate cancer. Therefore, this study was conducted on 100 subjects including 50 histopathologically proven patients of prostate cancer and 50 apparently healthy controls. The habit of smoking and alcoholism was enquired about and recorded in all the study participants. The data was analyzed using appropriate statistical methods. It was observed that among patients, 32 patients (64%) were smokers while among controls, 22% (n=11) were smokers. Smoking was found to be associated with the cases of prostate cancer in statistically highly significant manner (p=2.22 X 10-5). Among both the groups, 12% were found to be alcoholic (p=1). All the alcoholics in both the groups were smokers too, therefore, 6 subjects out of 50 (12%) were in the habit of both smoking and alcoholism in both the groups (p=1). Therefore, it may be concluded that smoking has a positive association with prostate cancer
Keywords: Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Smoking; Alcoholism
