Study Links Early Balding To Risk Of Prostate Cancer

(London)  —  French researchers have concluded a study in which they have linked early age balding to the risk of getting prostate cancer later in life.  Their study shows men who begin losing their hair at age 20 may be more likely to develop the cancer later in life.  The researchers compared 388 men being treated for prostate cancer with 281 men and discovered those with the disease were twice as likely as the healthy men to have began losing their hair when they were 20.  The study led by Philippe Giraud of Paris Descartes University appears in the cancer journal “Annals of Oncology.”

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