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Medical history, body size, and cigarette smoking in relation to fatal prostate cancer
Cancer Causes and Control, 10/14/09

Weinmann S et al. – The observed increase in risk associated with recent cigarette smoking is consistent with the findings of several other studies. However, in contrast with some reports, we observed no connection between fatal prostate cancer and some prior health conditions or measures of body size.

• 768 health plan members who died of prostate adenocarcinoma during the period 1997–2001
• Randomly selected controls (929) from health plan membership and matched to cases on health plan, age, race, and pattern of health plan membership
• Examined medical records to obtain information on potential risk factors during 10 years before date on which prostate cancer first suspected
• Same reference date used for matched controls

• Anthropometric characteristics, as well as personal histories of benign prostatic hypertrophy, transurethral prostatectomy, cancer, diabetes, prostatitis, hypertension, and vasectomy largely similar for cases and controls
• Men who died from prostate cancer more likely than controls to have been cigarette smokers according to most recent smoking notation before reference date

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